which were all high-coding, 13%; mostly high-coding with some low-code tooling, 36%; an even mix of low-code tooling and high-coding, 31%; mostly low-code tooling with some high-coding, 14%; all low-code tooling, 2%; and don’t know, 4%. Figure 6 Low-Code’s Place In Ideal Future Approaches To Software Development This shows responses to the question, ‘What is your organization’s ideal approach to software development in the future?’

Low-Code Is Everywhere

Development Speed, Efficiency, And Citizen Dev Are Some Top Goals For Low-Code This shows responses to the question, ‘What was your organization’s goal(s) for adopting a low-code platform?’

The former sentiment will continue to affect the competitive dynamics of low-code and the enterprise software market generally for the foreseeable future; application generation will kill the latter. Despite being slower in low-code adoption, European developers hold the most positive view of low-code’s future, with 46% citing an even mix of low-code and high-code, mostly low-code, or all low-code as their firm’s long-term ideal for custom software development.

Low-Code Is Becoming Mainstream — But We’re Still Writing Lots Of Code Forrester coined the term “low-code” in 2014 to describe platforms that provided visual, declarative tools to deliver custom software. Since then, the category has matured to become a common approach to application development and is key to the future of generative AI for software development and software generally. But high-code development is not going away anytime soon.

However, high-code development is not going anywhere anytime soon. Forrester’s Developer Survey, 2023, provides clear points on this topic in North America and Europe. Low-Code Has Been Institutionalized In North American IT Eighty-eight percent of North American developers use low-code platforms for at least some of their work, and 50% spend half or more of their development time using low-code (see Figure 1).

There’s a lot of noise right now about what generative technology can do in enterprise software development for applications and workflows. Depending on who you ask, it’s either the end of software developers — or just another overhyped shift. Let’s cut through the noise. We Started With The Low-Code Revolution Low code was a revolution. […]

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AI Scales Cybercrime Faster Than We Can Defend Against It The report outlines how Claude, Anthropic’s agentic AI coding assistant, was misused in multiple sophisticated campaigns. One standout case, dubbed “vibe hacking,” involved a threat actor using Claude Code to automate reconnaissance, credential harvesting, and commit extortion across 17 organizations in sectors ranging from healthcare to emergency services.

But highly conservative and regulated financial services and insurance firms exclusively interested in faster coders (not citizen development, fusion teams, or low-code’s other benefits) should also pay close attention to TuringBots for high-code development. Over time, TuringBots may make high-coding just as fast as low-code development — but the answer will take years to fully emerge.