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> however plenty of enterprise CRUD software can be easily tackled with such agentic runtimes

People love to make such claims, but the actual CRUD part of enterprise system, while it’s the primary interface, isn’t the actual value of that enterprise and most enterprise code I’ve seen rely already on frameworks to take care of the technicalities. Most of my time has been taken by what should happen when you do one the CRUD actions. The specs of that can be quite complicated to gather, easy to build, and difficult to verify.

Yes, nonetheless plenty of RFPs nowadays are for using such platforms instead of traditional coding.

That is left for microservices, aka MCP tools, being called from such agentic runtimes.

Do those RFPs come from the users or the buyers?

We had RAD tools like Access and we still have Excel. Even if they do lack some capability, you can do implement most of the core ideas of whatever features you’re trying to prototype. Actual coding is then to translate that to another platform and solve some accidental complexity.

Those core ideas are what’s valuable and they do not change often over the lifetime of a business. If the software has a good architecture, maintenance cost can be quite low.

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