alt Hacker NewsLow-code tools have guardrails that keep things predictable - you know what a Retool app can and can't do. AI-generated internal tools are just... code. Code that will need updating when APIs change, when requirements shift, when the person who prompted it leaves. "We migrated everything in a couple of sprints" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Check back in 18 months when half those tools have drifted into unmaintained states and someone has to figure out what handleEdgeCase_v3_final_FIXED.js was supposed to do.
Well thats the problem right there, business logic belongs in the database, not JavaScript rats nests. I’d argue that Claude and even Coeldex are so good with SQL that it would be insane to use any other approach. And the database survives the hot framework of the week churn.