OutSystems may be best known for its low-code development platform expertise. But the company has steadily been moving to a specialism in AI-assisted software development – and the parallels between the two are evident.

In June, the company unveiled its generative AI roadmap, codenamed ‘Project Morpheus,’ with benefits including instant app generation using conversational prompts and an AI-powered app editor offering suggestions across the stack.  The mission remains clear: ‘developer productivity without trade-offs’, as founder and CEO Paulo Rosado puts it.

Project Morpheus, in the words of Nuno Carneiro, OutSystems AI product manager, is ‘the next generation of software development.’ “What we’re doing is building a completely new development experience, based on this premise that AI will give you suggestions. You do not have to code practically anything, and the AI is suggesting what to do,” says Carneiro.

“You have a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get visual experience in terms of software development where you can change the application directly in your development environment. – On top of that, AI gives you suggestions about what you might want to change so that you don’t need to code things manually.”

This means the artificial intelligence is there to tweak, rather th