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The deskilling of web dev is damaging our health

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Re: The deskilling of web dev is damaging our health

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The call for CSS specialization strikes me as seriously misguided (even before agentic coding became a thing). Yes, web development is complex and you can’t know everything, but it is possible to learn what you need as you go and generally build up a strong high-level sense of what is possible and what approaches are reasonable for quality. But web development is not rocket science. Someone with CSS skills but not JS…

I'd always been amazed over the years by how many people didn't even attempt CSS. They looked at it like an after thought. Reminds me of a favorite Archer quote: "I thought we skipped that step.", "Skipped a step... in bomb defusal...?"

Re: The deskilling of web dev is damaging our health

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so what's the cause ?

maybe there's a cultural failure - where if we consider a 'generation' of devs to be in cohorts of 10years. they have failed to pass knowledge down. hence why the wheel keeps getting reinvented.

every industry grows & refines itself by knowledge & skill getting passed down. software is the one anomaly. & right now with LLMs they're tryna kill juniors.

which boils down to 'culture'

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