AI will pick whatever it likes. Ocom has the experience to know why you would pick one over the other, and to help you get moving again.
You asked AI to build something your business needs, and it went well. Screens appeared and it started doing real work. Then it got harder.
Microsoft Access let people build real solutions for their business without being a developer. Eventually those solutions became too complex for Access, and keeping them going became too hard.
The people who built them did nothing wrong. They outgrew the tool. AI is the same story, and it gets there faster. We still help businesses move on from Access, and the same experience applies here.
As an application gets more complex, AI seems to struggle to keep a good enough understanding of it, and it starts to make more mistakes.
What you have made shows what you need. It has the screens, the steps and the information that matter to your business, and anyone can click through it. That makes the process quicker.
We can't promise that all of the code will stay. A review of your code base will show how complete it is, and which parts stay and which get replaced.
Java and JavaScript share most of a name and very little else. Java is commonly used for long-running systems on servers, and it catches many mistakes before the software runs. JavaScript runs in every web browser and on servers too, and it is flexible and quick to work with.
Both run serious systems, so neither is the right answer every time. What matters is knowing why you would pick one over the other for this job.
AI will pick whatever it likes, and it may never mention it. It makes plenty of other choices the same way. Together they can be the difference between a stable, secure system and something that "just works". Today, more than ever, it is important to think about these things.
Which one it uses and how your information is arranged. This gets hard to change once real data is in it.
How people sign in, what each person can see, and where the passwords are kept.
Where it is hosted, who can reach it, and what happens if it goes down.
Most software relies on outside packages. Someone has to know which ones, and keep them up to date.
We start with a review. What happens next is your choice.
We go through what you have built and tell you what is sound, what is risky and what we would do next. You get a written report to keep, and you can stop there if you want to.
You stay involved, with an experienced developer beside you. We agree who does what after the review, because it depends on what the review finds.
We take on the work. The review decides what stays and what gets replaced, so this could be anything from a repair to a rebuild.
You own the custom code we write for your business. Your system also uses reusable Ocom components, which are licensed to you as part of the ongoing arrangement.
The questions that decide whether software will hold up, in plain English.
Do the languages and tools AI picked suit what your business needs this software to do?
Is anything checking that a change has not broken something else?
Are passwords and customer information handled safely, or sitting in the code?
Where is your data stored, who can get to it, and is it backed up?
Could another developer work out how this was built and why?
Will it still be possible to change this safely, or would you have to start again?
AI writes a lot of our code, and a developer stays responsible for all of it. We call that developer driven AI development. These are the limits we set on our own work. They are not a judgement on yours.
Every line we hand over has been read and understood by a developer who can explain what it does and why.
Any data structure we build on is designed or checked by a person who understands your business.
Requirements come from you and from us, in a room together. The AI is a tool for building, not for deciding.
We do not call our own work finished until it is tested.
The first call is free. If a review makes sense, we give you a fixed quote for it before we start. We don't publish prices for work we haven't scoped.
If you then want us to work alongside you, we agree that and quote it after the review. If you want us to take it over, the review feeds into our paid specification stage, which sets a firm, fixed price before the work starts.
A free call will tell you whether this is worth doing. If AI is not the right answer to your problem, we will say so.