These company blog articles are usually for marketing. Humanloop develops software to assist with prompting during the development process, so the author’s conc

These company blog articles are usually for marketing. Humanloop develops software to assist with prompting during the development process, so the author’s conclusions reflect the company’s intentions more than an objective industry observation. AI is transforming how we prototype and iterate, and products like v0 or Replit are scratching the surface. However, historically, low-code platforms lacked a good integration with complex development cycles. There were many attempts, but they either failed or shifted their focus: Microsoft Expression Blend had a brilliant concept of integrating early sketching and ideation with development, but the product ultimately died with Silverlight; Framer had an editor that allowed users to integrate React components with a design tool, but they repurposed their product into a CMS-oriented tool like Webflow; Builder.io is following a similar path. It seems that in today’s market, there is no clear fit for the RAD tools of the late 1990s. Maybe AI can change that and create the new equivalent to Visual Basic. The hardest part is the extra mile that goes from the prototype to something robust and complies with multiple quality attributes: scalability, performance, security, maintainability, and testability.