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No code payments automation is a lie

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9 pointsmanojr134 comments

Timeline of a nocode solution:

>Sales person explains how for only 100k-10M/yr, you can eliminate all those expensive programmers and replace them with 50k/yr people who have no experience

>For 100k/yr, they will send their own expert to build the infrastructure

>Sucker Company proceeds to buy powerautomate/powerBI/etc...

>The sucker company hires people at 50k/yr, the software can't do everything they want, its slow to develop, a few programmers come over to help

>this continues for a few years, 100k programmers are using these no code solutions, doing things that take 60 seconds in python, in 4 hours. Sometimes there is no possible way, so they write some python to supplement it, rigging up a horror that works for now

>No Code Company basically discontinues service due to unpopularity

>Sucker Company hires legacy no-code enterprise devs at 100k/yr

>Sucker Company hires legacy no-code enterprise devs at 150k/yr

>Sucker Company hires legacy no-code enterprise devs at 200k/yr

>Sucker Company hires legacy no-code enterprise devs at 300k/yr

Continue that until someone pays the tech debt.

You could just copy this and paste it for any "no-code" solution. Beyond a certain degree of complexity and customizability, engineers are always required. You can't just create configurable automation for everything, because at some point the configuration becomes just as (or more) complex than the coding necessary to create the thing in the first place. Then you are just creating a new context for which a trained person needs to be hired with domain-specific knowledge, except in this case the domain is proprietary, which is actually what I think all of this no and low code automation is about.

Strong worded posts like this always make me a bit worried when they come from a player denegrating their competitors.

If I summarize, the point of this blog post is that these solutions don't apply to every use case.

I find it ironic coming from a payments solution, whose solution probably don't apply to every use case.

Thats the goal of the post. No solution will cover every problem for scaled up businesses; hence no-code is always a myth and code needs to be written.

The larger goal of the payment solution is not be be fully complete and call itself as the one-and-only no code. It is to create open source and reusable code to avoid the repetitive work for developers..

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