Agentic coding presents an existential threat to a broad set of low-code tools.

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AI-powered agentic coding tools are fundamentally disrupting the low-code platform market by making traditional software development faster and cheaper than using low-code solutions. The author shares their company's experience migrating away from Retool after discovering that building internal tools with AI coding assistants like Cursor was faster, more maintainable, and produced better results than their low-code platform. This shift happened in just a few sprints, reversing the ROI calculation that previously justified low-code adoption. While the low-code market is projected to reach $50B by 2028, the emergence of AI coding tools that approach zero marginal cost for shipping code presents an existential threat to the category.

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