No-code tools reshape who you work with and how you see yourself. Technologists using them risk alienating colleagues, while non-technical people gain independence and pride. You might lose old friendships but find a new community that values what you can build.
I think getting more into no-code can cost you friends. If you are a high-end technologist, you're starting to use the things that other people use. It's a bit like being a public intellectual if you are in academia. It feels like you're sort of courting with a foil poli, and yet there's so much value to be created there. If you are a non-technical person, there can be a lot of pride that goes into being the person who doesn't really understand how to use technology. That's what I hire other people for. And the, and when you start to bring that knowledge into yourself and you start to use it as a lever, because you have your hands directly on it, it can be remarkable how much value you can create, but you no longer look like those other people or even the other people you were previously aspiring to become because your career path now looks different. It's just a result of being intersectional, being innovative. And being innovative necessarily means that you're new and you're not going to look like what came before. So yeah, sure, getting into no-code or low-code, that, that can cost you friends, but there is so much more and a new community awaits you.
