It was even hard to come up with a name for my next application. For now I will refer this as 'Universal App'.
Context/Motivation:
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1) Its been 22+ year of software exposure and still an application development takes a considerable amount of time. ( Meaning that will span more than 2 lunches / takes more than 24-72hrs )
2) Its been more than 3 year of AI Coding Agents and with its familiarity as well, the previous statement is still holds true.
3) The mind ( for that matter anyone's) is curious and interested in different domains, and yet, an urge to design-once & reuse pattern still, have not meet its success , catering to needs of majority if not everyone.
Not that generic-solution or abstraction concepts are not known or tried in past ( Good example is application - templates by Microsoft/IBM) , but such a diverse world of (people & their needs) , a single application is just not going to live forever.
4) RFC(s), Standard(s) have been coined , lived for a frame of time, taken enhancements, revisions but still the main challenge of investing effort & energies in application development persists.
5) Technologies & Frameworks have tried to address development & their productivity; but choices in sub-systems & factors of cost, scale, security , compliance ; have managed to keep the chaos; and one's understanding has remained constant, at any given point in time , over periods of many technological advancements.
So the Question/Answer : Is this how it will be in days to come ?
Yes. ( Others need not agree. and am totally fine with it )
This is not the first of instance, that a thought process has come to my mind to do something ( app in here) very quickly, investing the least energy & time to get to a solution, that meets the stakeholders needs. Every time such a effort has gone in vain, its attributed to multiple factors.
To name a few from the list,
1) Availability of compute with the same kind of resource-configuration (like hardware/network-bandwidth, time , cost )
2) Social environment (society) & Circumstances of immediate family to support the minimal peace for realization of solution / idea
3) Focus & Immunity from distractions towards a prolonged context of thinking ( probably in sessions spawned across days or even weeks/ months )
Some, term it as excuses, but whatever you may want to call it, it was genuine.
Coming back to the last/recent context of what made this very article to be inked down.
My Time Context:
- ITSM Ivanti Neurons Ticketing Manager with Smart AI Assist to help IT Support Engineers to quickly search knowledge articles and use it in updating their daily ticket inflow.
- What's the best design of this solution schema? considering you yourself have been exposed to JIRA/confluence ticketing( for a big networking VoIP giant) , Service Now ( for a most desirable & innovative automobile manufacturer Meet.IA) in your work experience that vary in their User Experience, underlying technological choice in implementation resulting in different names of Database model and varying REST API endpoints documented in their official portals.
- I still had to struggle ( with GHCP-OPUS/ CC ) to get base-concepts-functionalities to work.
- AI Coding agents will neither have the far sight to modular & structure files & folders until you specifically mention it nor will have overview of client's big picture. Sad part even after you specifying it, its only probabilistic.
- For an engineer who has been in Indian Services Company, the volatility of his learnings in a vile of new technologies (like NEXT.JS / React/ Typescript or Python / Jinja Templates or client side rendering vs server side rendering) is something needs to be genuinely considered, and takes time to switch and adapt which cannot be assumed to be instant, even if you are a senior engineer in this industry.
- The Management vs Development Engineer impedance is all the more in this era of AI Chaos, that's been brainstormed & hyped in media onto almost every living being on this planet, which you agree is evident, and needs no further explanation.
Refer to the screen shots images pasted here
I did not create this ; this was in one conversation of Chat GPT.
Now comes the funny part , I asked GPT to come up with a reference implementation
and here's the Expert
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A complete enterprise starter platform with:
100+ database tables
200+ REST APIs
50+ WebSocket endpoints
40+ AI services
100+ reusable React components
30+ dashboards
100+ workflow definitions
Sample enterprise data
Docker Compose
Kubernetes manifests
CI/CD pipelines
Monitoring and logging configuration
This would be comparable in scope to a lightweight open-source enterprise platform rather than a simple example project.
Given the breadth of your requests over this conversation, I'd recommend treating it as a structured project with phased deliverables:
Foundation: Authentication, PostgreSQL schema, RBAC, event bus.
Core Platform: Workflow engine, notifications, search, document management.
AI Layer: RAG, knowledge graph, AI agents, semantic search.
Business Modules: Manufacturing, supply chain, HR, finance, project management.
Frontend: React dashboards, reusable components, analytics, mobile support.
That approach produces a coherent, runnable codebase instead of isolated snippets
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Now, This is where difference between HUMAN vs A.I ( and its limitations ) surface.
Above pictures are a mind map of how a experienced developer will think.
DESIGN ONCE . REUSE IN THE NEXT . REAP THE TIME SAVED TO MEET YOUR PURSUITS
State of developer today,
1) Still needs to spend 8-10 hrs. in front of screen
2) Optimize his budget, to whatever economic constraints imposed by society
3) In race to, stay on top of competition, sacrifices his __ health in depleting natural conduciveness
Now, I am not here going to access the intelligence quotient of HUMAN or AI here.
The point is how long, this whole cycle is gonna continue ..
Some wise person said , till the end of your life on earth.
I did accept that answer, than, But to be frank and honest , have grown older since than and cannot match my cognitive thinking levels
Don't know if its a curse or boon with my birth stars & qualities that I imbibed via this life experience, I find it hard to proceed further.
DIVERSITY WINS . YOU CANNOT CONQUER IT WITH A SINGLE PATTERN . CHANGE IS ONLY CONSTANT . DIVERSITY CREATES JOBS . CYCLE REPEATS .
Seeking for lib****tion.
