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A former employer of mine banned Microsoft Access, because they didn't want critical business functions running from random desktop machines. I imagine they'd take the same view today to home made LLM-generated Rails apps.

They instead said "if you need to write your own little CRUD apps, use our APEX instance that we support and have backups for."

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> imagine they'd take the same view today to home made LLM-generated Rails apps.

Sounds like an effective solution. Even though some people might build a great application, but someday they might leave, and nobody knows how to administer this.

You can still write bad PL/SQL code, but at least everything is centralized and stored in a single database where you have an admin making sure that everything is fine. For other developers, it is straightforward to make small changes because 95% of the complexity just lies in the data model and the database code. You don't need to adapt to a specific infrastructure, frameworks and other dependencies, etc.

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