Yup, this is a very old hype cycle. Seems that every bunch of years, the industry has to relearn it. Yes, they can be useful for some situations, but the limit

Yup, this is a very old hype cycle. Seems that every bunch of years, the industry has to relearn it. Yes, they can be useful for some situations, but the limits close in fast, and soon you will have to deal with real logic, concurrency, etc, as well as product limitations, and vendor lock-in. And there are multiple reasons that corps separate development tools from ordinary users. First is that it is a very short path until the project will encounter questions that require actual development training and expertise to get right - and there are 100 wrong ways to get it wrong, many of which will create real damage & business costs. And the other perhaps best described by the exec who said (a few decades ago) that "I don't want to turn a great senior $200k analyst into a mediocre junior $35k BASIC programmer at the same cost". So yeah, giving users such tools to hammer out prototypes to give better specs to developers ican work great, but thinking that the latest "no code" tool is the end of it is foolish.