In my career (I'm retired) I wrote or designed many programs. Once out of curiosity I counted the lines of code in a few of my largest apps. I came up with over 2 million lines. My degree is in psychology. I credit my ability to design apps that give the users what they need with my never had an application fail. Coding is not the hard part of development. Projects fail due to management problems or incorrect or unobtainable goals. I think a degree would be nice, but not in electrical engineering or CS.

Low code can work for real life situations and complex projects if used appropriately. Good enough code may not swell developer egos, but it can get the job done. I have seen plenty of bad code written by "programmers", worse than the code generated by low-code applications I wrote or bought.

Coding is not the hard part of development. Design is. I have developed over 2 million lines of code in building applications my customers loved. Was it optimum code? No, but it was good enough. Trying for perfection leads to abandoned projects.

I have been using low code development since I wrote my own scripts to write documentation and boring data access code. When commercial tools became available, I jumped on them. I developed a couple of millions of lines of delivered code in a 20 year portion of my career. I could not have done that without some sort of automation. Coding is not the hard part of development. Knowing what to code is the hard part,

Without Facebook providers would have to run their own Web sites. They should be grateful to Facebook for reducing their expenses.

I have written a lot of SQL and I don't find it that hard unless you try and use it like a procedural language.

"Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich." Some people make money from poverty. Right now they are only getting big government handouts, their usual income stream has been disrupted. We could afford to take care of the poor, but the rich need us to get back to work making them money.

I have had one of my pages decimated by some jerk from Eastern Europe for no reason. I'm sure there are jerks everywhere. I'm not picking on Eastern Europe This jerk deleted half a page of information about a community event half a world away from him. I doubt that sort of vandalism can be controlled.

South Korea and China are in the downward phase. Reality makes your conclusions irrelevant. Maybe you should use Google and get some facts and stop insulting people who have.

The hard part of software development is not coding. Knowing what to code and how to make it look to the user is the hard part. There is no way most supervisors or subject matter experts have the time and energy to design software or manage a development project, let alone learn a tool. I wrote software to automate repetitive coding for more than ten years, until commercially available software made it more profitable to buy it. I have millions of lines of code out in the wild, mostly written by tools. Every one of my projects succeeded, because I knew what I wanted, base on understanding the needs of the project owners. They also succeeded because code generated by code is absolutely the same in every instance. If you have a bug in one line of data access code, it will be in every similar line of code. If you find it and fix it in the generator, you can regenerate the code for every instance in minutes, as opposed to hours of finding and fixing the bugs by hand.

Coding is important, but knowing what to code is more important. Most businesses don't have staff with the experience to figure that out. To be fair, most coders don't have that skill set either. I began writing scripts to generate repetitive SQL and application database code in the late 1990s. Once I had the scripts, I could make database changes and generate the new versions of the code in minutes, then modify the application code quickly, because I knew the data connection was already correct. I have used low code to develop a successful application with 1.2 million lines of code in about 9 programmer months. Low code and no code is a big advantage for the experienced developer, but almost useless to the non-programmer.

I am not the fastest coder in my experience, but I am good at planning, and I have always automated writing the boring stuff like data access. The result is my generating thousands of lines of code after a week of writing code to read my database and generate stored procedures and C# code. More recently, I use Microsoft's tools to generate app skeletons in minutes. Sometimes developing smarter can create a huge difference in productivity.

I suspect Biden knows nothing about programming or coal mining. I don't doubt a few coal miners could learn to develop code. but it take a certain type of personality as well as intelligence to create applications that succeed. I am responsible for writing or managing the creation of a lot of code, and even people who develop for a living often struggle.

Should a painter try and assign copyright to his brushes?

I used to shop Frys when they carried the hot new items I used to build my computers, but they have turned into a purveyor of only mediocre stuff with mass appeal. I gave up, even though I lived about 5 miles from a Frys.