No-Code is Dead, Long Live AI-Powered Code Generation
It's 2025, and the no-code revolution has failed to deliver on its promise of democratizing software creation. No-code platforms haven't replaced traditional programming, falling far short of expectations. A decade later, a new approach has emerged: 'vibe coding,' powered by AI and LLMs to generate production-ready code from natural language prompts. Tools like Bolt, Lovable, and v0 demonstrate the superiority of this prompt-to-code workflow. People prefer actual code and the control it offers, rejecting proprietary runtimes and embracing open standards and deployment flexibility. The need wasn't for less code, but a better way to write it. The new generation of tools leverages LLMs to generate clean, idiomatic code, deploying to open infrastructure, effectively unbundling the limitations of the previous no-code generation.
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