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I originally shared this after stumbling upon it in one of Martin Fowler's posts.
The article reminds me of how my mother used to buy dress patterns, blueprints if you will, for making her own clothes. This no code library is much the same, because it offers blueprints if you wanted to build your own implementation.
So the thing that interests me is what has more value - the code or the specifications? You could argue in this age of AI assisted coding that code is cheap but business requirements still involve a lot of effort and research.
To give a non-coding example, I've been wanting to get some cupboards built, and every time I contact a carpenter about this, it's quite expensive to get something bespoke made. However, if I could buy blueprints that I could tweak, then in theory, I could get a handyman to build it for a lower cost.
This is a very roundabout way of saying I do think there are some scenarios where the specifications would be more beneficial than the implementation.