The End of No Code

Following Bending Spoons’ reported $1.28 billion acquisition of Airtable, a former Airtable employee argues that advances in LLMs with tool use may reduce the need for traditional no-code platforms. The piece traces how spreadsheets, low-code tools, and SaaS enabled business users to create applications when IT procurement and infrastructure barriers limited bespoke software, while praising Airtable’s approachable database modeling experience. It contends that coding agents can now help non-engineers build, deploy, and iterate on custom web applications directly on Linux-based infrastructure using open-source stacks, with less platform lock-in than proprietary no-code services. The author promotes exe.dev as a service offering secure Linux virtual machines, integrated coding agents, sharing controls, automation support, integrations, and plans starting at $20 per month, while suggesting that users can migrate existing spreadsheets or low-code systems through agent-assisted conversion and add more formal development practices only as applications become business-critical.

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