Mike! Thank you so much for your comment. I'm appreciative that you took the time to read this and share your thoughts.

I'm sure I can learn a ton from you and the wisdom that you certainly amassed during your 40+ years working in this industry (Yes I read your profile too but I wouldn't dare label you).

This morning I looked in the mirror when brushing my teeth and said damn I look old as hell. So to know that I Iook under 40 just made my whole week!!! (I'm 38 years for anyone wondering). I wrote my first line of code when I was just over 11 if my memory suits me correctly (if we even call BASIC code that is lol). Honestly a fraction of what I've done in my life is present on my Linkedin profile (thanks for checking me out and forcing me to challenge my entire existence on a Friday). For your clarity and anyone elses that aims to comment shame me for simply positing a new point of view on how technology can be open to many and not be something that only the few can access here goes. My first coding language like most in that era was BASIC. From there I did the most basic (pun intended) of things which then got me more into more real software. I remember playing with my uncle's computer and tinkering around with DOS commands and having an innate curiosity for what was possible. It wasn't until I got my hands on a Borland C++ disk and book that my world really opened up. By 16 like most kids my age I knew my way around the unix, linux and windows. I was shellscripting and pretty fluent in a few languages and built little utilities and applications to handle a number of the things that a young curious kid at that age cared about. I managed to score myself a gig working in GIS/MIS for a summer job and my job was to catalog asset tags on machines for my local city. They thought it would be an entire summer project (I finished it in five days). I convinced my then boss at the time to let me do more since I was basically writing VBscripts to automate the downloading, parsing and collating of all asset information which I retrieved using a simple program I wrote overnight to grab all the info across the network for each machine. (Yes this violated the antiquated security policies of their feeble network/IT policies and certainly had the senior IT folks intrigued). After building a few really stupid video games in Java, C++, and a few horrible attempts to make DirectX do some cool shit I kinda moved on and started playing around with the web. I wish I had you to be my mentor maybe it would have completely altered my path and stopped me from writing this terrible article on nocode that has hurt so many people. I'm the son of a blue-collar family and was the first in my family to goto college. That's where I got pretty into Perl and CGI and started building simple automations and programs for local businesses. We'll skip some of the payment gateway stuff I did because that was for some pretty questionable companies. I think I had made more in a summer than most of my friends made in a year working two jobs and barely making enough to buy junker cars and I was the kid driving a BMW. As a punk kid those things mattered back then almost as much as my ping rates for playing Total Annihilation on Mplayer. From there I started getting really into web development and worked with a number of places that aren't listed on my Linkedin. From there out of my dorm room while working for a corporate job I started a boutique web design & dev shop called Digital Surgeons (we're celebrating our 15th year in business this month) and we built a number of different projects over the years that I think qualified me to write this article and share my perspective on software. Brilliant minds like yours will not be replaced with Lowcode. In fact me writing this medium article will have zero effect on your future successes (fear not). In fact think of all the amazing things you can be doing with your experience that you can now leave to all the script kiddies and hack marketers like me since these tools exist. Oh and Mike, I haven't "quit" coding I just don't do it full-time since there are far better engineers that I work with who made me feel dumb every day with their brilliance. Have a great weekend.