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People used to tell me all the amazing things no-code and low-code was able to do as well.

And at the end of the day they went nowhere. Because (a) they will never be perfect for every use and (b) they abstract you from understanding the problem and solution. So often it will be easier to just write the code from scratch.

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No-code and low-code tools have been very successful...

They fill a need, but I wouldn’t say they e been “replace people’s jobs” successful, as this context hints at.

They have definitely replaced jobs! There are tons and tons of sites and applications now that have been built with these tools and otherwise would have been built by software developers using wordpress or drupal or rails or whatever.

But that doesn't mean the developers who would have otherwise done that work were just disemployed by the success of these tools. No, they just worked on different things.

And I think that is a valuable lesson that can be applied (though I think not perfectly) to this LLM era.

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