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RIP Low-Code 2014-2025

created: Jan. 26, 2026, 4:11 p.m. | updated: Jan. 27, 2026, 5:39 a.m.

The rise of AI and particularly agentic development presents an existential threat to an entire category of low-code platforms. In the not-too-distant past, we relied heavily on a low-code platform called Retool for almost all of our internal Admin tooling. For our low-code tooling, the shift began with a single choice to prototype some new, self-contained functionality as a standalone internal tool instead of via our low-code platform. All of a sudden, we found ourselves feeling constrained by the same low-code tools that until so recently were unblocking us. It’s inevitable that incumbent low-code tools will adapt—they will need to in order to survive.

2 days, 14 hours ago: Hacker News