I’ve seen plenty of unmaintainable solutions written using Excel and VBA, FoxPro, Access etc.
In my recent experience, the only “low code” solution that may be feasible to non developers will be something like ChatGPT.
I am working on a project now and it does as well as junior developers writing well written, commented logical Python code when you give it your “business requirements” in plain English.
While I wasn’t too surprised that it knew about standard Python libraries that work with xml, Yaml, json, etc., i was surprised that I could tell it:
“Write a Python script that takes an xml file with key and value nodes (I gave it a sample) and given a DynamoDB table with key and value fields, if the key from the XML file has a corresponding key in the DDB table, replace the value node in the XML file with the value field in the DDB table”.
The code worked perfectly.
There is no reason that properly trained model couldn’t create a GUI.
In my recent experience, the only “low code” solution that may be feasible to non developers will be something like ChatGPT.
I am working on a project now and it does as well as junior developers writing well written, commented logical Python code when you give it your “business requirements” in plain English.
While I wasn’t too surprised that it knew about standard Python libraries that work with xml, Yaml, json, etc., i was surprised that I could tell it:
“Write a Python script that takes an xml file with key and value nodes (I gave it a sample) and given a DynamoDB table with key and value fields, if the key from the XML file has a corresponding key in the DDB table, replace the value node in the XML file with the value field in the DDB table”.
The code worked perfectly.
There is no reason that properly trained model couldn’t create a GUI.