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Re: The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

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You sound like someone who was adversed to cell phone cameras taking over film. Get ready. AI is coming for every single industry, full steam.

Bro, "AI" can't even program decently. It's still, to this day, worse than every human I've ever worked with. The idea that it's going to take over every industry is laughable.

it is funny having some anon tell me something that is 100% different from my own experience and i've been coding for 30+ years now.

Re: The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

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As someone who loves FE the slop people are pushing where I work is really quite upsetting to me. I reviewed some code earlier which clearly wasn't intended for consumed by humans and I know with certainty this dev wouldn't have understood 90% of what that code did. It looked like hours of Claude trying to force square into a round hole tbh, but it worked. Was I going to reject the PR because of my code preferences?…

> Was I going to reject the PR because of my code preferences? No, of course not. Ultimately it doesn't matter anymore.

You absolutely should've rejected it. Putting slop into production is a huge trap, because now the humans can't understand it and the LLM is just going to make it worse and worse over time.

Re: The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

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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 wouldn’t be able to do any of that without you setting it up first. She would not know anything about deepseek, meaning of a folder with index.html file. Would not know even what to ask ChatGPT, “I need a website”? You make it sound like easy task anyone can do, when you provided 99% of otherwise impossible for them to easily obtain key knowledge needed.

Any idiot can spend one minute now to acquire this amazing knowledge that you can just ask ChatGPT “I need a website”. If they don’t know now, sooner or later they’ll know from a short TikTok or something in the next couple of months/years. Not to mention AI companies are spending $$$ on ads to raise awareness; professionals already know they can create slides with LLMs, literally nothing’s different when it comes to most content websites. Yes, it’s an easy task any idiot can do. Head in sand, pretending it’s some sort of $10k for knowing where to hit situation isn’t going to reverse the trend.

Re: The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

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That's like saying Google offering GMail ended webmail - there are still plenty of webmail services around: some better, some worse, some more specialised. The same will be true of most sectors. AI is another tool in the toolbox, not magic. It's not about being pro or against it, it's here already (hey, we sell it!) and obviously it will continue to get better; but it won't magically solve everything for $2.

i've written smtp servers. it has the best spam control on the planet. i'd never use anything else.

That's great to know, Jon. I suspect non-US governments have a different opinion. Heck, even the US government likely has a different opinion. Not to mention Google competitors in any other sector.

Re: The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

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i've written smtp servers. it has the best spam control on the planet. i'd never use anything else.

That's great to know, Jon. I suspect non-US governments have a different opinion. Heck, even the US government likely has a different opinion. Not to mention Google competitors in any other sector.

one out of 10000000 customers.

Re: The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

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> If you write a React component with an agent, though, then the risk of just yolo’ing it into production is (typically) much lower.

If your state management gets out of sync with the form controls your users are working with it can become pretty high risk because now users see one thing and something else actually gets sent to the backend.

Re: The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

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

That is why I am very thankful for my job. We are not really allowed to use LLMs for much of anything.

That sounds like an absolute dream.

Re: The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

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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.

Maybe, but what about when "Claude do this" picks WordPress for someone that doesn't know what a reverse shell is?

Still a win. Claude loves to write code from scratch instead of searching the web and pulling in dependencies, so you’ll likely end up with fewer garbage tier plugins written by people whose average skill level is put to shame by bootcamp grads; those people don’t know what a reverse shell is either.

Re: The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

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In my useless opinion, most people are not aware of how big AI is and how bigger it will be in 3~5 years. It's not worthy to be worried about it, because it will be a global problem, but there are people who are completely blind about it

> It's not worthy to be worried about it, because it will be a global problem Like hunger and diseases are global problems not to be worried about.

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Re: The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

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That's great to know, Jon. I suspect non-US governments have a different opinion. Heck, even the US government likely has a different opinion. Not to mention Google competitors in any other sector.

one out of 10000000 customers.

Have you any idea of how many businesses need a financial consolidation tool, out of the total number of businesses out there?

No, of course you don't, you write email servers.

Sure, your local garage will now do their accounting in vibed apps instead of vibed Excel files. I suspect multinationals will choose not to.

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