I think it is a great tool for non-technical managers or designers to build a prototype, validate it with real customers, and make sure they know what they want to deliver. It many hands of developers so they can keep working on serious apps and systems and make important long-term architectural decisions. Without "no code" solutions they would have to spend much more time prototyping and reworking something, overengineering it at a certain point, and then throwing the whole thing away when the manager realizes that the validation part was not successful enough.
The problematic part comes when those non-tech people decide the "no-code" prototype can go live as a final product and start asking developers to "just" add a little button doing XYZ so they can deploy a big marketing campaign. It would be great if those "no code" tools would help understand the limitations of the solution to their users clearly enough and not sell them "we can do everything for you, fire your dev team".
I think it is a great tool for non-technical managers or designers to build a prototype, validate it with real customers, and make sure they know what they want to deliver. It many hands of developers so they can keep working on serious apps and systems and make important long-term architectural decisions. Without "no code" solutions they would have to spend much more time prototyping and reworking something, overengineering it at a certain point, and then throwing the whole thing away when the manager realizes that the validation part was not successful enough.
The problematic part comes when those non-tech people decide the "no-code" prototype can go live as a final product and start asking developers to "just" add a little button doing XYZ so they can deploy a big marketing campaign. It would be great if those "no code" tools would help understand the limitations of the solution to their users clearly enough and not sell them "we can do everything for you, fire your dev team".
Yeah I agree that the tools are not being honest to people about what they can truly do. Thanks for your comments!