Coding Faster, Pussycat!

I could not agree more with Dan Creswell when he writes...

Every decent software engineer knows that actually you want less code.

Yet I've seen this get turned into a desire for tools that implement systems "without coding". Unfortunately those tools often ignore the benefits of text-based code such as testability, maintainability, flexible automation for deployment, and so on.

So I definitely want less code, while still wanting "code". :-)