> Just a year ago HN was full of existential dread over no code/low code tools. How many jobs did those cost? > Going farther back in history it was outsourcin

> Just a year ago HN was full of existential dread over no code/low code tools. How many jobs did those cost? > Going farther back in history it was outsourcing that would put programmers on the street. These two trends actually created a lot of jobs. No-Code tools are great to solve the first 90% of the problem. Often, the remaining 10% requires code to properly express. Now, with these low-code/no-code tools, you don't simply write code against a well known framework or runtime but a completely proprietary API/plugin interface that's barely documented and can break at any time. As an added bonus, if the no-code/low-code startup goes under, you now have a worthless plugin and no way to even export or run your no-code workflow! As for outsourcing, I know people who rewrite offshored code for a living. It's the majority of their contracts. They built this niche by being systematically undercut by foreign body shops. They got started by getting contacted by the companies who initially went with offshored programmers to see if they could take-over the project when they realized it just wasn't ever going to work.