From Low-Code to Low-AI-Code.

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Low-code platforms like Oracle APEX have a clear advantage in the AI era, as the LLM generates the metadata for the app out of your functional specification, not the actual code itself. As the low-code platform vendor is in charge of the underlying code, you can rely on it to be

maintainable,

more secure and

legally bulletproof.


Let's go through these in more detail.

Maintainable
Vibe coding quickly leads to a code mess as the LLM doesn't really optimize the code, it just implements your request. On code level, an identical function might be implemented multiple times by the LLM. A low-code platform returns HTML/JS/CSS to the web browser out of the metadata in runtime based on optimized, proven internal code. This means that your app is always state-of-the-art when upgrading the low-code platform and should bugs arise, they are the responsibility of the vendor to solve, not the developer.


More Secure
Many security features in Oracle APEX are turned on or are restrictively set by default. Examples of these are Session State Protection, Authentication, Session Timeout, Embed in Frames, Deep Linking, amongst many others. When generating the metadata for a low-code app using a LLM, you can therefore automatically rely on a more secure/restrictive app. With vibe coding on the other hand, a LLM might introduce malicious code. A low-code platform only allows valid, proven metadata to be imported.

Legally bulletproof
How do you know for certain that you don't violate copyright protection when the LLM is generating code? When you generate metadata, aka. the intent of the app, you can rest assured that no lawyer will sue you.

More for less
Using metadata instead of code to define your app uses a lot less characters. This leads to faster response times of the LLM as well as less tokens being used. Less tokens means less costs and also a reduced workload for the LLM. Less workload means less resources consumed, so less damage for our planet.

Low-Code is dead, long live Low-AI-Code!

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