{"id":127,"date":"2015-08-04T14:32:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T14:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=127"},"modified":"2015-07-31T14:03:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:03:54","slug":"do-coders-like-to-build-stuff-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Do coders like to build stuff themselves?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One possible &#8216;back story&#8217; behind (or obstructing) low code is the desire of coders to build stuff themselves.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; because they are the only person who understood it) is often told within the software industry.<\/p>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; with more employment in low code companies and a few super specialist coders working for big companies doing specialist integrations.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; One possible &#8216;back story&#8217; 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 &#8211; because they are the only person who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.softwarefordomainexperts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}