It’s what developers love to do most; creating code. So everything from low-code to no-code is what we are not trained, and especially do not live for. However these days with AI and better and better LLMs do come around the corner every day. The world of no-code is exploding and it becomes more promising every day. But, while marketing-wise no-code/low-code platforms do sound like gods gift, these platforms do come with downsides as well.
For those downsides you see the development world is searching for solutions. A solution you read more and more about is what some call mid- or medium code. I like to call it “less-code”. The goal is of course, like all other flavours, fast(er) development. The main difference with no-code is that it keeps flexibility. It’s as easy as it gets; when lowering down the amount of code a software engineer has to write. Your development just goes faster.
How can this be achieved?
Achieving less-code is best possible by defining a strict, well modeled, general pattern. And if we do so by using best practices we already know, it becomes even easier to learn and master as well. It does also come with another advantage. When strictly modeled; LLMs can more easily be trained. After which AI can generate “high-code”.
And to not forget: when the base is code. It comes with lots of other advantages. Such as: Source Control, abstraction, scalability and of course customization and flexibility.
Movie Pattern Practice
We have found a way into less-code with our “Movie-Pattern-Practice”. The pattern used to develop Backlot. It has a strict model of “actor-role-scenario”, following a movie metaphor which can be used to train LLMs. Creating solutions with this framework does make the solutions highly configurable, scalable and customizable. Because under the hood it’s “high-code”, it almost is as flexible as you are used to with custom developed applications. A lot of code can be re-used as building block. Which does result in even less(er)-code for the future. The potentials of automatically generated code by using AI are very high. Sounds like gods gift!? No it isn’t, it’s a Marvelous gift 😉 But without joking a less-code strategy deserves a spot in a world where developers are making the difference, while still lowering down overall development time. The “Movie-Patter-Practice” itself is open sourced and can be used to create you own framework. You can find the infographic here.
The model in action
Below a picture of how the model is implemented by using our Backlot framework, based on C#. The example does show a solution saying “hi” to a an external saved actor (person), in this case “Kees”.
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