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Citizen development of applications in the enterprise is becoming more "normal" with every passing day. The veteran industry watchers at Gartner, for example, predict that, by 2024, 80% of technology products and services will be built by "those who are not technology professionals." The market mavens at Statista see a rise in global low-code platform market revenue, which was valued at almost 22.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2022, to reach approximately 32 billion U.S. dollars in 2024. "The market is projected to grow with a CAGR of 26.1 percent over this period," Statistica predicts.

How long could it take for the explosive emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) technology to come to the aid of the non-technology professionals building these applications? And how will their software-savvy professional colleagues receive it?

In a post on the Microsoft Cloudblog ("Power Platform is leading a new era of AI-generated low-code app development"), Charles Lamanna, Corporate VP in Redmond's Business Applications and Platform group said, "IT pros can expect increasing efficiency gains due to recent announcements of embedded AI in low-code platforms. Features like Copilot in Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents will further streamline solution development with natural language authoring and the ability to converse with an AI assistant."