The Implications of AI Agents for the Citizen Developer

The Implications of AI Agents for the Citizen Developer

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This column has been reporting on and predicting the involvement of artificial intelligence (AI) in low-code/no-code (LCNC) citizen development since around the time Microsoft first introduced CoPilot as a chatbot for Bing and then a replacement for the Cortana assistant application in 2023. Since then, we've discussed how to build better prompts when attempting to work with a particular AI, the coming of Citizen AI, TuringBots, the relationship between AI and Citizen Developers, and an admonition not to make software anymore, but rather to make agents.

Particularly Prescient

That last suggestion was recently validated by none other than the CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, during a podcast in which he spoke about business applications and said, "That's probably where they'll all collapse, right? In the agent era."