The "No Code" movement is not a delusion. Most of us in tech are very ego driven and don't think this will happen, the majority is not in tech and want this to happen. It will happen.
I feel like everyone misunderstood what the "No Code" movement is supposed to be about.
It's "No Code is the Best Code". The idea is that the code you should be writing should be things that are the core of what your business does. Those things should be sufficiently hard to replicate. Everything else should be a commoditized product or open source infrastructure that you deploy.
This way you avoid time reinventing the wheel or, much more importantly, making your product something that's easy to commoditize!
I've worked at companies with hundreds of complex Java microservices that essentially replicate built-in functionality provided by NGINX, HAProxy, etc. Literally for no other reason that the people making the decisions know how to write code, but they don't know how to productionize and configure NGINX or HAProxy.
These companies are more than happy to waste hundreds and thousands of man-hours building and maintaining this code that isn't their product versus hiring more competent ops folks to stand up infrastructure or train developers on cross-functional skills.
When the size of your engineering org starts climbing into the hundreds and thousands, NIH Syndrome kicks into high gear. Heck, I'd actually say it starts around 30.
I don't mind it happening. Just most of these tools are rehashes of stuff that happened in the 90's and still have the same problems.
Programming has been an evolution higher and higher abstractions. It's not different.
We will probably move to a higher abstraction, but it will probably something like describing the problem with tests, and the computer automatically writing something that passes these tests.
You still need these skills. You will just accomplish more in less time.
