That's interesting with the Zillow anecdote. I wonder if the nuance in the title is actually correlated with a difference in behavior/culture/best practices/approach?
agreed on the presence and stickiness of no-code tooling. but in a future where we want to enable LLMs and agents to do as much of that work as possible, a code-first approach seems far more likely to make that effective. not just because agents are better are writing code than clicking through interfaces (maybe that will change as agents evolve?), but because the SDLC is valuable for agents for the same reasons it's valuable for human developers - collaboration, testing, auditing, versioning, etc.
yeah, i've seen large fortune 100 data and analytics orgs where the majority of folks with data engineering titles are uncomfortable with even the basics of git.