Everyone writes, but most of us are not "writers." We send emails, make lists, and publish posts. Writing is both an everyday action and a profession.
Software looks similar. Making software is still seen as a specialist job, but the specialism now isn't, "Can you write and understand code?" Instead, it's, "Can you think about the system?"
No-code came 10 years ago and broke the barrier for many of us who wanted to build software but couldn't write code. But it was still a system you learned to put together—it was effectively programming with a different interface.
No-code's issues were:
You had to want to build. You still needed a developer's ambition to create software.
You were limited by the tools.
The second is now irrelevant. You can truly build anything, if you have the first. But the want to build was often clouded by fake self-doubt or excuses like, 'I'm not technical.'
As barriers drop, we get more slop—which I think is a great thing. Not acceptable for a multi-billion-dollar company with production code (although it's happening a lot), but more than acceptable for someone who never created software before.
As we're seeing crappily built products everywhere, we're also seeing magical experiences. There is now a lower floor and a higher ceiling.
