While these two may seem contradictory, I see this as a great trend for developers.
Developers of 10 years ago would focus on building common solutions like blogs and landing pages. Now there are slew of NoCode startups that allow non-developers to do it themselves.
This frees up developers to focus on more complex problems.
The Developer Tool startups of today should be asking - "what are the common tasks that developers are doing today, that will be easy for non-devs in 10 years?"
Perhaps my thesis if wrong, but that's what we're hoping to achieve at https://supabase.io
In our case the "complex task" is creating CRUD APIs. Creating these are monotonous and developers could be spending time on much more valuable tasks. We're starting to see this with the rise of amazing tools like GraphQL/PostgREST.
Other areas to watch will be the "simplification" of databases. Think "MS Access" for advanced databases like Postgres. Metabase is a good start here, focusing on the reporting aspect of the data. The next steps may be database design and data entry, - Retool seem like they could do well in this area.
Possibly, In 10 years low code will dominate enterprise development, IOT and quite likely , also most consumer crud apps.
And today, many people develop very similar services across companies. In the future most of those services will be available online.
On the other hand software will become dominant in many more fields.
SO that will require more infrastructure, and more software engineers dealing with machine learning, unstructured data, data science, 3d objects and worlds, machine creativity, experts in optimization.
> 9. Developer Tools
While these two may seem contradictory, I see this as a great trend for developers.
Developers of 10 years ago would focus on building common solutions like blogs and landing pages. Now there are slew of NoCode startups that allow non-developers to do it themselves.
This frees up developers to focus on more complex problems.
The Developer Tool startups of today should be asking - "what are the common tasks that developers are doing today, that will be easy for non-devs in 10 years?"
Perhaps my thesis if wrong, but that's what we're hoping to achieve at https://supabase.io
In our case the "complex task" is creating CRUD APIs. Creating these are monotonous and developers could be spending time on much more valuable tasks. We're starting to see this with the rise of amazing tools like GraphQL/PostgREST.
Other areas to watch will be the "simplification" of databases. Think "MS Access" for advanced databases like Postgres. Metabase is a good start here, focusing on the reporting aspect of the data. The next steps may be database design and data entry, - Retool seem like they could do well in this area.