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In my experience, these tools have another - counter intuitive and often overlooked - strength. Their limitations.

You want to handle this very specific edge case? With code, there is certainly a way to do this. It may take days, it may add unreasonable complexity. Nevertheless, someone (yourself?) will ask that this kinda insignificant edge case is properly handled. And won’t take no for an answer.

With a (too) limited « no code » tool, maybe there really is no way to handle the edge case (or it would require code in a context that forbids it). Management (or yourself!) has no way to make someone fix this, and can just give up. Soon enough, there is no problem. Finally, you can live with the unhandled edge case! Ok, you’ll just brief users. Ok they’ll learn by themselves that they shouldn’t do this.

So sometimes, « no code » tools can’t solve a problem. Then the problem simply disappear. It helps with finding a 80-20, something good enough. Everyone can be focused on more important stuff.

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