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Oh great, another article claiming that cloud and APIs will make code go away. What do these people think drives APIs and provisions infrastructure in the cloud
by UseStrict 8y ago
Oh great, another article claiming that cloud and APIs will make code go away. What do these people think drives APIs and provisions infrastructure in the cloud? We may get better abstractions for some forms of data, but there will always be a demand for code, even when we get hyper-intelligent AIs it will still need to be able to generate code.
At $WORK, management attempted to jump on the no-code train, forcing us to use Salesforce and OutSystems to attempt to write complex business systems. What we got was an unverifiable, totally vendor locked, poorly performing system that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. It was an exercise in frustration.
- orclev 8y agoAny system sufficiently complex to replace programming is indistinguishable from a poorly written and designed programming language. It's the same broken thought process that leads to business rules engines which themselves always end up being maintained by a specialized programming team. You can't magic away the skills and requirements that necessitate a programmer, you can merely make the programmers job easier or harder.
- borplk 8y agoorclev law :)
- joshmarlow 8y agoI'm curious, what were the worst parts about that experience? Was it the limitations of what was possible on those platforms, or were things possible but just too unwieldy? Can you imagine a scenario in which it didn't suck?