My biggest decision in low-code has always been “what will I give up to get things ready-made from the tool”. That’s falling apart with coding agents.
For example:
- Glide: I couldn’t touch the buttons;
- n8n: mainly how the triggers and some of the nodes are configured;
- Pipefy: how I structure and query the data.
Their “by design” limitations come with many advantages, and I still feel that, for most people, these tools combined with Cowork/Manus/OpenClaw will be more useful than trying Claude Code.
BUUUUT if you’re willing to learn a bit of the technical side, the freedom — with its pros and cons — is worth reconsidering. Before, you had to depend on a team to deliver that. Today you MAY not need one as much.
Being a “duck” in the product world — the Brazilian way of saying jack of all trades — has been fun these days. :)
Originally written in Portuguese and published on LinkedIn on May 13, 2026. I translated it into English with the help of AI (Claude): it let me bring my LinkedIn posts to people who don’t read Portuguese without rewriting each one from scratch. I reviewed the translation to keep my original meaning and tone.