Any attempt to drastically reduce the difficulty of programming has one of two effects: either it fails miserably, or it works brilliantly and immediately raise

Any attempt to drastically reduce the difficulty of programming has one of two effects: either it fails miserably, or it works brilliantly and immediately raises the bar of what is expected out of our software. "No code" should be understood in the same vein as COBOL was supposed to eliminate the need for highly trained programmers (per a sibling comment). Obviously COBOL didn't do that, so the question is whether this is a hype bubble or a new incremental step. Personally, my money is on hype. All the demos I've seen are pretty impressive, but very shallow. Large apps are complicated beasts, and scaling usually ruins simplistic demos pretty quickly. Furthermore they seem to suffer from the same issue that prevented COBOL for making programmers obsolete: defining requirements correctly is very, very hard.