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0 pointsbpicolo4y ago0 comments

You may underestimate the ingenuity of non-developers hacking on no-code platforms. They end up thinking a lot more like developers than one might think.

Our operations organization has independently arrived at some things pretty darn adjacent to more advanced software patterns, like circuit breakers. (This being for workflow automation no-code tooling, vs website builders).

And a ton of real world work is getting done out there with Zapier, that's for sure.

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wvenable4y ago

I've seen a JSON parser written in a drag'n'drop visual no-code flowchart-like application that was very impressive and, if printed, would have caused the death of many trees. Utterly unmaintainable and horrifically stupid given any full-code solution would have involved using a pre-written library.

ummwhat4y ago

But then it's no longer no code. It's just a code environment for people who somehow got convinced "I could never learn to code".

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wvenable4y ago

ummwhat4y ago

But then it's no longer no code. It's just a code environment for people who somehow got convinced "I could never learn to code".

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