My longest standing no-code colleague has rebuilt his Nordcraft & Supabase app (built over 6 months ) from scratch in a week using Claude Code, Svelte, Shadcn & Convex. It's blown my mind 🤯. I've been v sceptical but having seen it with my own eyes, maybe it needs another look.
He's not a coder but has worked with several no-code tools over recent years and is experienced at designing & building systems, which he says were essential skills to help him rebuild the app using AI.
He says he's now a product manager and the actual programming/coding aspect is done by AI.
The original app, built in Nordcraft (a no-code/visual development platform) was in-progress and he didn't think he could meet his March deadline using no-code, so he took the chance to spend time trying to build with AI to see if the reality matched the "hype". It was clear within a couple of days that he was building faster and got to parity with his no-code build in just a week.
I'm not posting this to add to the AI hype, quite the opposite. I'm going to test this out myself over the next week or so to validate it, cos I just didn't believe it ... until now!
I got into no-code to build applications faster than with code and, despite my initial scepticism, it proved to be correct. If AI enables us to build even faster than no-code then, regardless of my scepticism, I will need to adapt yet again. 😬