Citizen Developer
An enterprise employee who builds business applications independently using low-code or no-code platform tools without a professional software development background. Citizen developers are considered an important driver of business-led innovation in enterprise digital transformation.
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A Citizen Developer refers to a business user without a formal software engineering background who is able to build applications independently using visual platforms or AI-assisted tools.
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The emergence of AI programming tools has compressed the two steps of requirements understanding and code implementation into one, enabling practitioners with industry knowledge but lacking a technical background to directly transform their experience into software products.
65%UnverifiedAI驱动的公民开发者运动区别于早期低代码平台的拖拽式操作，可以用自然语言直接表达复杂的业务逻辑
75%UnverifiedA Citizen Developer refers to a business user without a formal software engineering background who is able to build applications independently using visual platforms or AI-assisted tools.
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