Large language models have dramatically changed the landscape of web development, leading to a decline in demand for traditional front-end development roles. Senior developers seem to benefit disproportionately from these changes, while junior developers express fears of being automated out of jobs. There is a growing need for developers to adapt their skills, particularly in leveraging AI tools effectively for coding tasks. The rapid evolution of AI coding tools, which can now produce front-end code efficiently, signifies a fundamental shift in how web projects are approached.
The money [in front-end web development] is ... gone. Two years ago, everyone was throwing money at you to build websites; those clients are now gone.
Every week, we get a new [model that is] leaps and bounds around everything we've seen. Large language models have blown past every limitation I had imagined.
Today, you'd have to be crazy to hire untrained people to write code because the bar to contribute has been raised so high by AI.
When even seasoned engineers are surprised by how far AI can go, it's easy to see why junior developers fear they'll be automated out of a job.
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