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Modeling the data and structuring the program are indeed the harder tasks, but orgs have lots of smart people who have those skills but not the familiarity with various existing syntaxes and standard libraries and so on that a programmer learns over the decades of their career. Further, those same orgs probably have many people with experience in the latter but without any special ability to think abstractly. This significantly limits the ability to create tools. Further, the no code tools often abstract at a more appropriate level than general purpose programming languages’ standard libraries because these tools aren’t trying to be general purpose (at least not to the same degree as general purpose programming languages). Lastly, I’ve seen business people use certain no code tools to build internal solutions quickly that would have taken a programmer considerable (but not crazy) time to crank out, especially considering things like CI/CD pipelines, etc. Nocode won’t replace Python, but it serves a valuable niche.

If no code tools are anything like ORMs, there will be some interesting surprises when one encounters non-normalized data structures.

I've been preaching this to all my non-coder creative marketing type buddies who have ideas all the time and think they can just whip up a product using all the latest and greatest no-code tooling.

They are destined for failure.