Ask HN: Honest thoughts on no-code or low-code solutions?
Probably because no-code&#x2F;low-code has been hyped since the 1970s, with the prediction that companies won’t need programmers anymore. End users will do their own programming. AI will write code better than human programmers. The work will get outsourced overseas. Software development and maintenance represents a big cost and significant risk to many companies so they eagerly lap this kind of thing up. COBOL and SQL both got pushed as low-code&#x2F;no-code solutions and you see how that worked out.<p>Tools and services that package something like notifications up for easy integration are not really low-code&#x2F;no-code. Useful tools and services save development time but that doesn’t mean they eliminate programming jobs.<p>I’ve been programming for over 40 years and have heard the no-code&#x2F;low-code predictions since I started. The day I see a manager or end user with no programming skill and experience do my job with some connect-the-dots visual tool or AI I’ll retire. I don’t expect that will happen anytime soon because translating algorithms to a programming language is not the hard part of programming.