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Re:Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the ... by mattmanser on Saturday August 22, 2020 @07:20PM (#24248102)
They tried this in the 90s and 00s.

It was such a spectacular failure it's funny to see it recycled.

And for you to claim you wouldn't have to worry about maintenance is especially comical. It was extremely high maintenance and expensive, and it often broke.

Programmers don't just code a problem, they solve the problem. Teasing out the actual business logic is as much a part of the job as anything else, and one that most employees and managers are so clueless and utterly useless at that any no code solution will require a programmer to actually use it any way.

But without any of the flexibility code gives, you end up with tons of dumb, manual, expensive, hacks and a sub-standard product. Eventually the 'no-code' platform adds the ability to use some code and you end up with a really shitty software platform that delivers 80%, but the effort required to get that last 20% is far in excess of just starting again and writing it from scratch in code.

Ask any programmer who remembers workflow software their experience and you will learn from the mistakes of two decades ago.

Re:Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the ... by tdeck on Saturday August 22, 2020 @08:07PM (#24248383)
Re:Ask HN: What non-obvious tech/market may take off in the ... by giantg2 on Sunday August 23, 2020 @12:16PM (#24252907)
"Teasing out the actual business logic is as much a part of the job as anything else..."

That's the definition of a programmer analyst or business analyst. If the business is too cheap or clueless to create business process maps or hire someone as a process efficiency expert, then they are certainly too cheap fund properly developed software and too clueless to intelligently answer the questions that an IT resource has to use to tease out an answer.

I do agree that no-code is not going to replace the need for software professionals.