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The Blind Spots of Citizen Developer and Low-Code Development That Will Create Technical Debt on an Industrial Scale
You can’t avoid problems you don’t see coming
It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out
When you are driving, there is a blind spot where you can’t see using your back and side mirrors. To solve this problem, when pulling across lanes on a motorway, drivers need to turn their heads and look in the blind spot.
The blind spot is a problem, but a manageable problem for drivers because they know there is a blind spot. For citizen and junior developers, they don’t know there are blind spot and this will be a source of unexpected problems.
With experience, knowledge and development skills, you are hoping you get lucky and create software with no problems. In software development, the only luck you get is bad luck, but software developers expect it and prepare for it (source control, backups, processes, best practices, code reviews, DevOps, etc.).
In software development, you cannot stop all problems, issues and technical disasters, but you can prepare and recover quickly.
