From the other side I can't imagine using no-code and inhering that tech debt when the equivalent software can be written by 1 skilled SWE in a day(ish), is it really cheaper than about 10 quality manhours (~$5k)?
10% of the code we write produces 90% of the value: retool etc. allow us to spend much less time on the 90% of code that isn’t valuable to the businesses we work for.
What retool offers is a nice UI on top of CRUD apps
Cool, but I lived without it for my entire career (and I thought of building something like retool for about as long)
Not bashing retool ofc, I think it's a great product for tech sectors that don't have access to top SWEs.