About whether AI like DALL-E 2 signals that CRUD programming will be automated.
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Yes 80 (69%)Not sure 19 (16%)No 17 (15%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether AI like DALL-E 2 signals that CRUD programming will be automated.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Let me know when you can speak English to a computer and have it generate CRUD code that satisfies all engineering and design constraints. The AI will need to be dynamic enough to understand nuance, missing gaps in the requirements spec, have context on the application being built, able to suggest improvements on product design, know how to make changes through the same conversational interface, etc.
Accomplishing that is achieving general AI.
In the meantime, there are plenty of boilerplate ORMs and simplistic API template tools that make production of bog standard CRUD apps dead simple. Of course, they all have their drawbacks and trade-offs, and aren't always suitable. But I don't see the amount of software engineering work reducing as a result of these no-code, low-code tools, do you?