I’ve been trying to estimate development time for a new workflow project, and I realized I don’t have good benchmarks for what’s realistic when you’re not writing code. Our team is split between people who can code and people who can’t, and right now the non-technical folks are basically blocked from building anything.
I keep reading about no-code and low-code builders, and they sound appealing on paper, but I’m skeptical about whether they’re actually faster in practice. Like, if you need something complex, don’t you just end up rebuilding it anyway in code? And if it’s simple enough to build visually, how much time are you actually saving versus just writing a script?
I’m trying to understand the real difference in deployment timeline. If we moved to a visual builder, could a non-technical person actually go from idea to live automation, or would we still need engineers in the loop? What’s the actual time investment compared to traditional development, especially for workflows that involve multiple steps and conditional logic?