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The End of Front-End Development

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Over the past few months, I've spoken with lots of early-career devs who are getting more and more anxious about AI. They've seen the increasingly-impressive demos from tools like GPT-4, and they worry that by the time they're fluent in HTML/CSS/JS, there won't be any jobs left for them. This sentiment is all over Twitter right now: I couldn't disagree more. I don't think web developer jobs are going anywhere. And I'm getting pretty sick of the FUD? being spread online. So, in this blog post, I'm going to share my hypothesis for what will happen. Things are going to change, but not in the scary way people are saying. I should note that I have a vested interest in this topic: I teach software development online. It would be bad for my business if developer jobs start disappearing. That said, everything in this blog post is based on my true beliefs. You can decide for yourself if those beliefs are biased or not. The CSS language was first released in 1996, in Internet Explorer 3. Within

Introduction Over the past few months, I've spoken with lots of early-career devs who are getting more and more anxious about AI. They've seen the increasingly-impressive demos from tools like GPT-4, and they worry that by the time they're fluent in HTML/CSS/JS, there won't be any jobs left for them. This sentiment is all over social media right now: I couldn't disagree more. I don't think front-end developer jobs are going anywhere. And I'm getting pretty sick of the FUD ? Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt being spread online. So, in this blog post, I'm going to share my hypothesis for what will h

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