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Re: The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

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Not that I'm in favor of spending money unnecessarily, but I find it kind of surprising she didn't just spend the $20, given this was a website for her professional money-making business.

Does updating the website bring in additional money?

Presumably a nicer website could lead to more customers. Otherwise why update the website at all?

Re: The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

#23
post #8

Being a programmer in the era of AI now means configuring the AI and run environments to produce the sought result, than manipulating the code itself. It's like how C runs on top of assembly.

Being a programmer in the era of AI means not being a programmer

Typing the code was never the interesting part.

Re: The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

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post #8

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Being a programmer in the era of AI means not being a programmer

Typing the code was never the interesting part.

>Typing the code was never the interesting part.

But solving hard problems and developing systems intuition was. If you're trying to tell me that people working on code bases predominantly written by AI are still solving hard problems themselves, or understand the systems the AI is building, I think they're lying to themselves.

Re: The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

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post #17

My wife's experience is managing teams and has been involved in creating corporate websites using contractors. She doesn't know anything about html at all. She just manages people. She's now working on a biotech start-up pre-funding. They have pretty much zero money. They want to redesign their website. I set her up with my deepseek key and she's been using flash-v4 with image detection (I think deepseek says it's st…

show us these "corporate websites"

That was just part of her work. She was employee #11 at a now $4.5B biotech company so everyone that early on had to do everything. She worked for Novartis, for booz allen, and others. She usually hired McKinsey consultants for projects but the web stuff was for smaller companies. She managed a team in India for one of her companies that took care of the web stuff. Basically just look at any top-10 Pharma or government website and you might see what she managed.

Re: The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

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Does updating the website bring in additional money?

Presumably a nicer website could lead to more customers. Otherwise why update the website at all?

> Otherwise why update the website at all?

Because you have it.

Re: The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

#27

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Does updating the website bring in additional money?

Presumably a nicer website could lead to more customers. Otherwise why update the website at all?

Changing office address? New qualifications? Better copy?

Re: The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

#28

My wife's experience is managing teams and has been involved in creating corporate websites using contractors. She doesn't know anything about html at all. She just manages people. She's now working on a biotech start-up pre-funding. They have pretty much zero money. They want to redesign their website. I set her up with my deepseek key and she's been using flash-v4 with image detection (I think deepseek says it's st…

> She was even able to change the text in one of their images to its new product name without having to contact the graphic designer.

Is that legal... ? I admit I don't know much about graphic design is contracted.

Re: The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

#29

My wife's experience is managing teams and has been involved in creating corporate websites using contractors. She doesn't know anything about html at all. She just manages people. She's now working on a biotech start-up pre-funding. They have pretty much zero money. They want to redesign their website. I set her up with my deepseek key and she's been using flash-v4 with image detection (I think deepseek says it's st…

Every static HTML pages built this way with ai is another WordPress site that wont get built by contractors just to be neglected, compromised, and used to launch phishing and ransomware attacks.

Re: The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

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Typing the code was never the interesting part.

>Typing the code was never the interesting part. But solving hard problems and developing systems intuition was. If you're trying to tell me that people working on code bases predominantly written by AI are still solving hard problems themselves, or understand the systems the AI is building, I think they're lying to themselves.

I have a blazor app in poduction, Codex made errors which it could not fix and it required me reading documentation. I won't argue that it didn't make my life simpler, tasks which would take me days are done in hours, sometimes without touching code.
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