[majormajor]

>90% of my my experience has always been dealing with large-ish corporate systems. I am in Europe, so YMMV even when talking about corporate instead of smaller scale projects.

>In my experience stuff like RAILS had negligible impact in my field because companies would always require solid backup from some big name vendor (MS, Oracle, IBM, Sun - back in the day, or even SAP).

>So most if not all the smaller silver bullets did not even make a blimp on the radar... and stuff like Java or .NET, while definitely better than C or COBOL... did not really deliver in terms of productivity boost (in part because, as noted in the message I am answering to, expectations kept growing at the same pace)

I've always been in small-to-midsized US corporate where Oracle etc were generally "no way are we gonna spend that much" but if someone can hack a decent thing together and run it on a spare server... that got traction 10-20 years ago.

I'm curious if those large corporations are more homegrown-code-by-AI-friendly than they would've been towards homegrown-Rails-app? A lot of the same potential problems exist.