The promise of low-code development couldn’t be more seductive. Who doesn’t want to do less work? Who doesn’t want to lean back and let the darn machines pick up the slack? We’ve been telling them what to do for decades, after all. They should have figured out a thing or three by now.
The good news is that more and more companies have found ways to create packages that are worthy of the much-hyped phrase, low code. Some are so good they might really be ready for the even more hyped phrase, no code.
The reality is that software stacks have been transformed by a mixture of sophisticated dialog boxes, vastly improved drag-and-drop interfaces, more resilient databases, and better integrated development environments. Adding just a bit of what might be called artificial intelligence (AI) seals the deal.