[HiTech RedNeck]

Sounds wonderful in principle, but as a tech who is heavy into script writing, I can’t see a magic bullet in it. It still has to be crafted carefully as a whole by someone who understands it well enough.

[Flick Lives]

Yup.

[spintreebob]

Custom code always has the potential to be better than once-size-fits-all generic modules. This raises two issues for management: 1. If you are going to custom code, does your team have the expertise and motivation to reach that high potential? Or is your team satisfied with a mediocre result no better than the generic product off the shelf? 2. Above your team, does management, and above that, do industry value the best system? Or are they satisfied with mediocrity? Example. Healthcare IT is currently the single biggest part of IT applications. It is totally driven by bureaucratic decisions of CMS (Medicare, Medicaid, ACA). CMS is a slow bureaucracy. Its standards are built on 1990s technology concepts that are mostly irrational reactions to the mainframe. The goal of CMS is for the bureaucracy to control everything. Allow no creativity. Allow no competition to see who can build a better mousetrap.

[Cronos]

true, but I mean that many of the integration jobs included coding and those will be gone. the skills needed will be kind of like in the early days of java that you needed the libraries