“No code” is a phrase doing a lot of jobs. Sometimes it means a spreadsheet with a login page. Sometimes it means a website builder that exports something app-shaped. Sometimes it means dragging boxes onto other boxes until you have a prototype that falls over the first time two people use it at once.
So it is worth being precise about what it means here, because the answer is a bit unusual: there is plenty of code. You just never see it.
Real code, written for you
When you describe a change, an AI writes actual application code: the same kind of screens and logic a developer would write by hand, running natively on the phone. Your app also gets a real backend of its own, with a proper database, user accounts and file storage. Not a pretend one that lives inside our app. Yours, separate, with your name on it.
The difference matters the day you care about it. Real code means the app works like the apps you already use: fast, installable, sends notifications, keeps working when the spec gets weird. App-shaped websites hit their ceiling exactly when your idea gets interesting.
What you actually do
You describe things. “Add a place for members to introduce themselves.” “Show overdue tasks in red.” “Let people RSVP.” Plain words, the way you would brief a colleague. The AI does the developer part, and you judge the result the way you judge any app: by using it.
The honest limits
It is not magic and we would rather you knew the edges up front. Big changes take a few minutes and cost credits, because real computing happens. Something occasionally comes out wrong the first time, and you say so in the chat and it gets fixed, which is also how it works with human developers. And Apple gatekeeps iPhone installs behind a developer account, which no tool can wish away.
Everything else is the deal as advertised: you bring the idea and the opinions, the code writes itself, and nobody ever asks you what a database index is.