Why Appian CEO Matt Calkins thinks AI will make low-code less important – and its platform more valuable
It’s always surprising when the CEO of a low-code company tells you that low-code is becoming unnecessary.
Which wasn’t quite how Appian CEO Matt Calkins put it, of course.
His point was actually narrower and much more interesting — that as natural language becomes the easiest way to build applications, the drag-and-drop interfaces that once defined the low-code category start to matter much less.
But that what remains — the architecture underneath them — starts to matter much more.
Because Calkins’ argument is effectively that his company’s low-code interfaces were never Appian’s fundamental product, but just a set of contingent tools through which customers unlocked its deeper value — the process, data, integration, security, governance and runtime infrastructure it offered to power reliable enterprise applications.
And while AI may now make some of those tools obsolete, Calkins remains sanguine — because he also believes that AI cannot succeed without the...
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