[borgchick]

Sure it's fun and stuff, but it is literally stuff like this that makes higher ups think "Why are you taking so long for a form? I can have an AI do it for me!" And then you have to spend time explaining that you have to consider responsiveness, internationalisation, error handling, oh... and there is of course what sits behind the form, all the back code that actually records all this information, error checks it, etc etc...

[tyingq]

I agree with you, but I also think it's a legitimate complaint that crud apps take so much time to build.

They used to be pretty quick with things like PowerBuilder...we've regressed.

There are things like this: https://developers.google.com/appmaker/

But nobody seems to have gotten big/broad traction with them yet.

[dragonwriter]

> I agree with you, but I also think it's a legitimate complaint that crud apps take so much time to build.

I'm not sure it is; no one really wants pure CRUD apps, they want CRUD + some useful processing; optimizing for the efficiency of making pure CRUD apps would probably be a net loss for real-world apps, which is why even though people keep making tools that make pure CRUD near zero effort, they don't become dominant tools (or, at least, that function of the tool isn't dominant.)

[WalterGR]

people keep making tools that make pure CRUD near zero effort

Could you name some? I’m struggling to think of any.

[michaelchisari]

Our tools have gotten more complex because our requirements have grown with them. People might say they want a simple CRUD app, but expectations grow very quickly.

[writepub]

Most higher ups are purposefully trying to trivialize the task at hand, with an explicit intent of psychological superiority over the worker. This tool is valuable regardless of how higher ups choose to understand the task at hand.