You might have heard of computer coding. But have you heard of low code? 

If you haven’t, low code refers to a process of developing software that minimises the lines of computer codes that developers need to write manually.

It might be a little hard to visualise, but think of low coding as the pre-fabrication of apartments. Computer codes are packaged into drag and drop icons just like individual pre-fab modules. 

All that software developers need to do to build an app is mix and match these icons, , or pre-fab modules, in the way that they want. And all the action happens at a construction site, or a user interface, that is highly intuitive to the man in the street. 

Low code is important to the tech industry because it democratises app developers for people with little experience in this field. It also allows organisations to introduce new enterprise software quickly without hiring a large number of experienced developers. 

But how will Generative AI shake things up, now that computer codes can be produced from language text prompts?

On Under the Radar, Drive Time’s finance presenter Chua Tian Tian posed the question to Leonard Tan, Regional Director, Singapore and Greater China Region at low code solutions provider OutSystems. 

Founded in 2001, OutSystems’ firm’s low code platform serves thousands of active customers in 87 countries and across 22 industries, including Japanese pharmaceutical giant Takeda and Indonesian telecommunications operator Telkomsel.