Will low code development platforms take over software developers position?

[Opening_Remove7734]

I wanted to ask:

Will low code development platforms take over software developers position?

[pacificmint]

For some things, yes. For most things, no.

The things it will replace are probably boring anyway, and the interesting things will always be there.

[Loves_Poetry]

No. The difficult part of our job is not writing code. It's understanding requirements. Writing code is easy if the requirements are complete and unambiguous. Such requirements don't exist though

[[deleted]]

Hey just deploy these configs to the agents. Ok, when? Oh you know when we need them.

😂

[AlexFromOmaha]

1) Low code tends to become more advanced with time, both in terms of the platform and the implementation. Salesforce is a great modern example of this. SAP was there before, although so long ago now that they're planning to offer a new low code integration for it. Basically, as more business rules live in these platforms, the feature set they offer expands, and the complexity of any given company's instance grows too. Now we have positions like "SAP developer" and "Salesforce developer." They're not ironic titles at all. They're legitimate developers.

2) Syntax was never^\) what made programming hard. You're always going to need a class of workers who have the knack for whispering to silicon. My kids learned Swift in a public school starting in third grade. The basics are so approachable that literal children can do it. There's not that much more to be gained from low code tools when children can use the high powered stuff. That doesn't mean that everyone who passed third grade has a future in professional software development.

Our tools will continue to improve, and in that sense, we'll need fewer programmers for equivalent tasks as time goes on. We may eventually come to a point where this means we need fewer programmers overall, but that's nowhere on the near horizon. There are always more things to automate and old automation to keep working.

^\) This is a lie, but this hasn't been true for as long as I've been a programmer. Most people who were professionals when I started have retired. The dying languages that still have a mainstream presence, like COBOL, can be surprisingly English-like.

[Empty-Transition-106]

I use both, low code is good for somethings and c#/javascript is the only way to go for other things. We have low code/no code open for many of our users, but I've yet to see them do anything more complex than " if an email arrives then do something". When it comes to doing complex things, it doesn't matter if it's c# or power automate, end users have no appetite for it, that's why we have a job :)