Do coders like to build stuff themselves?

One possible ‘back story’ behind (or obstructing) low code is the desire of coders to build stuff themselves.

The story of the person who built a piece of custom software and then got easy money for the next 10 years supporting it (and naming their price – because they are the only person who understood it) is often told within the software industry.

But more to the point, if you (as a coder) had spent years developing a skill, would you welcome making that skill redundant? It is (in a sense) as likely as London Underground drivers voting for driverless trains?

Perhaps the truth is that Low Code could mean quite a bit of change in the employment market for coders. Hand coders could become more redistributed – with more employment in low code companies and a few super specialist coders working for big companies doing specialist integrations.

But there will also be a growing market for people who can configure, understand, adapt, use their brains creatively and work out new solutions. That could be more exciting than coding.