Low Code "Revolution"

I saw an advertisement for Brainboard (Brainboard | Design, Deploy and Manage Multi-Cloud) this morning. I looked into it for a second. When I say "a second", I mean I checked out the main page to get the gist of what it's supposed to do. This is neither an endorsement nor a critique of the tool, since I just saw the homepage and nothing more.

It looks like a low code tool to help teams write Terraform code.

Now, I LOVE the idea of low code. I'm tired of developers and engineers taking simple concepts and turning them into a mountain of complexity. A simple thing like "I want to get an alert in Teams when someone sends me a direct message in Twitter", is perfect for low code. Give that to a development team, and you'll have git repos and unit tests and CI/CD pipelines and "nonprod and prod Twitter accounts" and Lord knows what else. Let me do it in something like PowerAutomate, and I'm done within 30 mins.

The worry I'd have with Brainboard is exactly what I'd wonder about other low code tools. I'm yet to meet a "real" developer who will use low code tools. They've all wanted the control provided by writing their app in "real" code, and they don't want the dependency on the low code tool itself.

Brainboard looks smart to me. I just don't believe the IaC folks who write Terraform code will adopt it. Nerds are gonna Nerd.