The era of no-code tools is ending because AI absorbs their functionality—Notion is a no-code database disguised as a word processor, Canva is a no-code design tool, and ChatGPT makes them redundant.
Amjad from Replit declared 'the era of no code is over'—tools like Airtable, Notion, and Canva that let non-engineers build things are being superseded when the same functionality lives inside ChatGPT. ✦ AI generated
Rory · 20VC · 2026-08-13 · original ↗
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Amjad said about air tableable not about canva but he said to his quote on the seal of replet's quote for air tableable was no criticism but the era of no code is over and no code was a bunch of tools where without developers or AI we could build stuff and air table was a noode uh uh database disguised as a spreadsheet right it was wonderful product before AI notion is a noode uh database um disguised as a word processor and Canva was a no code way to design stuff.
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9:04go on and type in generate me a flyer that says this and there it is. So you're right, they are more exposed in that sense. That's one. So I think you >> it goes to the fortnightification that Jason often talks about in terms of the shrink cam when you have a dinner invite that you can do on chat GPT and bundle it into your consumer subscription versus an additional tool.
9:25>> Yeah. other another vert the nerdier version Amjad said about air tableable not about canva but he said to his quote on the seal of replet's quote for air tableable was no criticism but the era of no code is over and no code was a bunch of tools where without developers or AI we could build stuff and air table was a noode uh uh database disguised as
9:48a spreadsheet right it was wonderful product before AI notion is a noode uh database um disguised as a word processor and Canva was a no code way to design stuff. It was a it was a a a breathtakingly disruptive product. I didn't need a designer anymore. I didn't need to know what how to how to do HTML or anything. It but the era of no code of things that we that we can humans can
10:14do without engineering resources, it's it's slowly winding down. And if it's in chat GBT, man, I'm I'm just worried. I'm just worried. Is it a is it a blessing or a curse that they didn't go public already? Then >> it depends on who you're asking. Blessing and a curse for whom? Right? Cuz I was thinking about this a lot cuz I knew this question would come up
10:35because if you think about it, if you're the founders, right? Doing this publicly is just marginally arguably marginally more painful. Right? So maybe you're happy to be doing this in private, right? What you're really saying is this. Let me trans because we we never say this explicitly. When you say is it a should you have gone public early what you're really saying is oh my god if I'm
10:55the venture guy who did this thing at a hundred million like blackbird or couple of I think felicus was in early and matrix was in super early and then even you know the guys who came in at a billion you must be like oh my god if we'd accessed that 50 billion valuation in 2021 I would be so gone now right and that's really what you're talking about