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Low code and no code environments are often made fun of on this site. I've actually used a low-code environment and yes, developers should be concerned. Adapt or die. They are incredibly powerful and not hard to learn.
But, somebody still has to write the low-code environments. That will always exist. But at some point the job of "programmer" will be flooded in the market and salaries will begin to drop. Unless you specialize in something that can't be moved to low-code.
This is one reason I'm building a farm.  
[Edit]Only a few responses in and my point is already proven. [/Edit] 
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ZurdoDev wrote: This is one reason I'm building a farm.
A chicken, pigs and cows or a server one? 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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I hadn't even thought about a server one. Pigs of course.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Nice... we might have a new provider for bacon
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M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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ZurdoDev wrote: This is one reason I'm building a farm.
That's a new idea! Grow your software on a field. 
And now, please pass me the algorithmic cabbage.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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The "duhvelopers" who're at risk from those things are the ones asking the facepalmingly stupid questions on QA and SO. Perhaps if their jobs are deleted, we won't have to keep deleting their doomed cries for help.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
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Dan Neely wrote: The "duhvelopers" who're at risk from those things are the ones asking the facepalmingly stupid questions on QA and SO
Not true at all. There is no reason most businesses can't run on low code environments today for the bulk of their apps.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Highly-skilled developers/architects will always be in demand. Unskilled developers should not be allowed anywhere near a keyboard.
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These questions existed before MS Access made the promise. The question is over twenty years old. We heard about the semantical web and seen it fail.
I'm thinking about stopping with programming. I think I may be happier shoveling muck and leave the programming part for those that learned C# in two weeks.
As the one who crippled "Exceptional Magic" by putting out a free version; the one that caused a 14k euro bug and unpaid overtime for three people.
Yup, I'm quitting programming.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I saw a documentation about a developer who ran off to become a bush pilot in Africa. I would try that before shoveling muck.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: I saw a documentation about a developer who ran off to become a bush pilot in Africa. I would try that before shoveling muck.
I been in a plane, and still can't believe being in an aluminum tin can going at that speed.
And, where's muck, there's brass.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Real men fly helicopters. Much more fun to fly and lots of useful capabilities when you are in an area without much infrastructure, like runways. If those things would not cost so much to operate...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: Real men fly helicopters
I'm starting to prefer a simpeler life and shoveling sh*t. Clean some stables. Be useful for once.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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That's another option, but I know myself. I would get bored very quickly.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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My son flies a Twin Otter in Northwest Territories, Canada. That thing can land on water, tundra, snow/ice and runways - and gets far better distance than a helicopter ever could. He loves his job!
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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Here's the kicker not generally considered:
People, like us, here (in the CP Lounge, of course) see these as more or less template driven websites (don't we already have that?) and there certainly seems to be a threat.
Except for one small thing:
And that small thing is the aptitude of these people to even thing about doing anything in the least bit technical. Damn - they have a hard to doing arithmetic. If there sites' to be more than a personal FauxBook then they'll need connectivity and such. Knowing what to store. Knowing what to retrieve. Etc etc etc.
My experience has found most people dumb as stick when it comes to doing anything beyond fondling their cell phones and calling themselves tech-savvy.
Boilerplate websites are already readily available and free - they don't concern me in the least. The only business I'd suspect will be lost is that craved by those hacks, slightly higher on the food chain, who had been their 'contractor' for website building.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: My experience has found most people dumb as stick when it comes to doing anything beyond fondling their cell phones and calling themselves tech-savvy.
How arrogant! These are poor ill people who need a brain pacemaker. Without it they would be reduced to mental vegetables.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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You're absolutely right. I have a (very good) client who runs a successful small business (successful in part 'cos I built a bespoke application for them a few years ago, moving them off a creaking Excel-based "system"). Recently we needed to get him signed up to a new hosting provider. It was one I was familiar with, knew the signup, and so wrote a 4-bullet-point step-by-step guide to signing up. (Click this button, choose that service level, click OK, enter your payment details... literally that easy).
I got the reply back within about half an hour - "I'm not really that technical - can you do it please" accompanied by full details of the company credit card.
Some people are terrified of anything to do with technology - maybe perhaps only in a "work" context, but that's enough - for us.
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It is even better. They are not stupid but a lot of people don't care. They just want a website, they don't want to know the details. That is why loads of companies and "influencers" have FB page or profile. Then one step up and there is already market for people maintaining FB/Social media profiles.
There is a lot of business owners who for example don't want to fill in their profile to get insurances, bank accounts, they just want to call someone at the bank and 'have it done!'.
I believe there will be even more work for developers because of low code platforms. Keep in mind all custom integrations that still will be needed just because low code platform flavor of the month won't support something they need.
Take into account all the IoT, industrial automation and tooling to keep it all running, no single low code platform will able to support everything. There you need developers to pump data from one low code platform to the other and to some devices and what not... I just have seen to much weird stuff and I know what is the cost to support things and integrations.
Last one - look at tech gigants they hire loads of devs and if they could build low code platform for themselves they would already do that. What are they doing? They are creating frameworks and libraries for devs. If low code would be such a great business, FAANG would buy low code companies left and right. In my opinon low code is maintenance/support nightmare that does not scale and that is why it is better to provide developer tools and infrastructure.
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No, it won't.
The bigger issue at hand is the world is pushing STEM and technology on EVERYONE, and the majority of people that try it, fail, and fail miserably. They are unable to grok it, let alone implement it for a living.
So, now they are trying to come up with technologies where the masses can do technology, without technology.
This will fail and fail big time. Our jobs are not in jeopardy. Don't feed the job monster. Everyone is going to be alright.
Also, pushing the need for the entire world to be proficient at technology is un-realistic, and 100% politically motivated on every level.
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I remember when everyone was going to get rich raising Chinchillas. Or selling someone else's stuff (e.g. web templates).
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Ok with great skepticism, I tried it. i put on my small business technophobe hat and set out to recreate the web app I have running in the debugger right now.
Nope. I got confused from the get go.
Try as they might they will NEVER replace the programmer.
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We've heard these arguments before when Machine Code was supplanted by Assembler; when Assembler (1st Generation) was (unsuccessfully) replaced by AutoCoders; then (more successfully) by programming languages (c1957) such as Fortran, Algol and LISP (3rd generation), then by so called 4th Generation tools such as IDEs, Report Generators, etc (c1980), and very unsuccessfully by the Japanese 5th Generation project (again, 1980s).
What happens is that the newer ways of working are disdained by existing programmers until they realise that the newer idioms just enable them to code their designs more quickly in a clearer to read and modify syntax.
I admit that I have not looked at the new no-code / low-code languages, but my guess will be that traditional programmers will not like them until they try them and find that they make the coding part easier but that the real skill (designing robust algorithms and data structures) still persist.
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I think it depends on the contexts of the systems these sort of no-code environments are meant to replace. A lot of companies with in-house software have had the web applications designed in a way that's very specific and integrated into business requirements, and a lot of the no-code alternatives simply don't have support for a lot of the back-end logistics.
I work for a company specialising in fuel cards, and the in-house software we develop (a web application) is enormous, but specifically we integrate with APIs for different fuel card providers (Shell, BP, etc.) which are enormously complex and simply couldn't be accomplished with a no-code system. Our business looked at replacing our software with several generic CRM packages, but each time they realised that the compatibility and complexity just wasn't there.
Unless these no-code environments can provide hugely customisable and complex operations, I don't think there'll be much cause for concern for developers in companies with established systems. It's probably cheaper to maintain the existing systems and have developers augment them than to purchase a whole new system, build it from the ground-up and then have new systems developed which implement the missing features, as well as training staff on how to use and build the no-code platform.
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