The Hardest Feature in a Low-Code Platform Is the Upgrade

<p>The collection of scripts, manual configurations, and unwritten rules that helped your company get started will eventually begin to hold you back. What once felt improvised and

<p>I recently spoke with several founders who initially built their products using AI tools, and a common theme emerged: scaling beyond the hobby stage is often a nightmare. Many

<h2> Introduction: The Moment Manual Coding Became "Optional" </h2> <p>In January 2026, Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, made a statement that reverberated across

<p>Everything we run ships continuously. The engine behind the apps, the back office our customers build in, the web products around them — code moves to production at the rhythm

<p>I joined a wedding-tech company in December 2025.</p> <p>Like every developer joining a new team, my first few weeks were mostly spent figuring out three things:</p>

<p>Snap just announced that AI agents generate over 65% of their new code. The same week, they laid off roughly 1,000 employees — 16% of their workforce. CEO Evan Spiegel shared

<p>The most productive engineer I ever worked with wrote code that would make Clean Code purists physically ill. No abstractions where one would "obviously" go. Functions that

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