About thirty years ago, I went out of my way to stop my company from acquiring another company whose only product was a low-code Motif (as in X Window) code gen

About thirty years ago, I went out of my way to stop my company from acquiring another company whose only product was a low-code Motif (as in X Window) code generator. My boss’s boss was very much for the acquisition, and it almost ruined our friendship when I had a long talk with his boss and put a stop to it. I now have to admit that I more or less agree with this article. I see so much wasted effort in not enabling subject matter experts with tools that would allow them to build systems that might be good enough to just use and maintain as-as, or prove value propositions that trigger expensive conventional development efforts. I just bought the domain low-code-AI.com that will probably be home to prototypes I have for data prep and deep learning, and simplifying working with internal knowledge graphs (the two things that I have mostly worked in in the last ten years). I like the comment in the article that application development is becoming a team sport, and not just done by a separate IT department. Much of the real value in corporations is in subject matter experts who believe in the company and nerd-out over the minutiae of running the company. I tend to view software developers as high paid fungible workers, somewhat easier to replace than SMEs.