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If ChatGPT is gonna disrupt any technology you'd think it might be low code platforms.

It's really sad, because almost all of these platforms are code-averse. They sell the idea that "code is the hard part". Business folk eat it up.

Then you sit there like an idiot dragging blocks around when you could have just asked GPT to bust it out in code in seconds.

They're so bad for source control and documentation, too.

Sure but if it's just ChatGPT spitting out code that the users don't really understand I can't see it being a workable solution either. What I'm thinking is that low-code implies something like natural language pseudo code that LLM tech is able to accurately interpret and turn into executable code. Of course the "accurately" part is still something of an issue, but usually with a few rounds of "no that didn't work" or "that's not what I meant" you can likely get what you actually intended.

I feel like any code created from GPT can also be interpreted from GPT. Use a prompt like "Explain like I'm 5". Also DiagramGPT and just generating documentation in general from code.

Perhaps at some point you can screenshot the lowcode and paste the image into GPT for it to interpret, but will they build for that use-case? The former exists today.

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