Re:Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement?
by Mountain_Skies on Thursday November 11, 2021 @04:06PM
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I remember articles early on during the release of SQL that promoted it as a way to reduce the need for programmers because it would allow managers to access all the data they wanted through natural language. Things didn't really turn out that way.
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Re:Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement?
by hluska on Thursday November 11, 2021 @05:12PM
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I took a course in COBOL when I was in Unversity. The professor was in industry but taught one night class a semester.
He started the class by talking about how when he learned COBOL, they told him this would make developers obsolete because it would let managers build their own solution. In his experience, it made developers even more valuable because “give a manager five minutes with a codebase, give a developer a job for five years cleaning the mess up.”
Re:Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement?
by wiether on Friday November 12, 2021 @01:25PM
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As a software engineer, the business data my manager wants is basically in Jira and even if they provides a (supposedly) user-friendly UI, they also offers their powerful JQL.
And at the end of the day, each times my manager wants something specific from Jira, he comes to me so that I can provide him with the right query. And he's supposed to have a technical background, so I guess it's even worse with non tech people.