Howie Liu: No-code remains necessary because non-technical users can inspect AI output
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Howie Liu is the co-founder and CEO of Airtable. He addresses whether AI code generators will make no-code platforms obsolete.
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“The fact that no code by definition means that the output of the Turing bot, the AI builder, Is actually in a form that a non-technical user can understand. So the very person who's asking the AI to generate the app can then understand fully its outputs.”
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