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This is a problem that's common to all "no code" solutions. The heavy lifting involved in implementing complex logic flows isn't typing code into an IDE, it's knowing how to model the problem and design an effective algorithm to solve it.

These solutions are targeted at non-technical users with the promise of not having to write code, but those users often get lost or produce erroneous results because they still don't understand the more complicated parts of engineering their solution.

Every time I see an attempt to scale up complex business processes with "no code" tools, it inevitably winds up hitting a wall after a lot of churn, then ultimately having to be handed off to actual engineers anyway, who are in turn hamstrung by the lack of any of the affordances applicable to actually writing code in a real programming language. It's almost impossible to work off a shared repo, have proper version control, do code review, automate testing, or do any kind of CI/CD when you are stuck working with visual flow builder tools.



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