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> That is the most stupid thing I've read in a while.

Arrogance.

It takes 10 lines of Python to compute a multiplicative inverse mod p, using arbitrary precision integers. [1] Try doing the same thing with nothing but x86 assembly and Volume 2 of Knuth's AOCP.

It's a useful, humbling exercise.

[1] https://karpathy.github.io/2021/06/21/blockchain/

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That doesn't make it no-code or low-code. It's just a high level programming language that's more efficient at solving one problem than another.

You're really just arguing about the definition of the word "code".

arguably, higher level language use higher level general code features, where-as no/lo-code solutions are using specialised/domain features.

This would make them similar to a framework like chef/ansible/puppet that requires a large library of "knowledge" on how to do various things (all written in traditional low/high-level general code).

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