AI creates bloated, sometimes nonsensical output that often straight-up doesn't work. It's perfect for replacing web developers. It can make mobile apps, too.
Just wait, soon there will be a JavaScript framework: by AI, for AI.
Will AI take web developer jobs?
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Re: Will AI take web developer jobs?
#22AI isn't taking American jobs. Foreign developer agencies utilizing AI and being paid a fraction of what American employees are being paid are taking American jobs.
Outsourcing literally in 100% cases results in shitty product. Every single time. So when some company outsources its development it is always good news - it can be pretty easily crushed with in-house dev team from a competitor.
It's happening at every single big company.
Re: Will AI take web developer jobs?
#23It's missing one critical point: if AI makes a good developer 10% more productive, the industry needs 10% less developers to achieve the same output. You're not getting replaced by AI. You're getting replaced by a coworker using AI. It doesn't matter how poorly AI performs at any remotely complicated task, what matters is how many developer-hours it saves by not having to manually write as much boilerplate.
Re: Will AI take web developer jobs?
#24GPT4o-mini, I asked it to refactor my class to a property with backing field and trim. It did that, but it also lost my Email property in the process. I asked it about it and it apologized and gave it back. Same with GPT4o.
Have you tried o3-mini? I'm finding it to be significantly better than GPT-4o for code - I'm even finding myself using it in place of Claude 3.5 Sonnet a lot of the time.
Re: Will AI take web developer jobs?
#25It's missing one critical point: if AI makes a good developer 10% more productive, the industry needs 10% less developers to achieve the same output. You're not getting replaced by AI. You're getting replaced by a coworker using AI. It doesn't matter how poorly AI performs at any remotely complicated task, what matters is how many developer-hours it saves by not having to manually write as much boilerplate.
> You're not getting replaced by AI. You're getting replaced by a coworker using AI. How long until people realise AI cannot take responsibility? Sure, that coworker can do 10% more coding. But can they handle 10% increase in mental workload to juggle all the hard problems? What about 20%? At what point do people start cracking?
Probably as much as companies can get away with, which likely will just be more and more as AI tools get better.
Re: Will AI take web developer jobs?
#26It might replace juniors in the short term.
But by the time it can replace (not merely assist) senior engineers, anyone who has a job in front of a computer, about 80% of workers, will have their job automated by AI and we'll need an alternative (or big changes to) to capitalism. Otherwise, this particular economic system will experience massive collapse.
Re: Will AI take web developer jobs?
#27It's missing one critical point: if AI makes a good developer 10% more productive, the industry needs 10% less developers to achieve the same output. You're not getting replaced by AI. You're getting replaced by a coworker using AI. It doesn't matter how poorly AI performs at any remotely complicated task, what matters is how many developer-hours it saves by not having to manually write as much boilerplate.
Dunno man, the times I’ve used AI to help me code, it got the solution wrong. I spent more time backtracking and fixing things than if I’d done it by hand in the first place. So it actually made me 20% less productive.
Re: Will AI take web developer jobs?
#28It's missing one critical point: if AI makes a good developer 10% more productive, the industry needs 10% less developers to achieve the same output. You're not getting replaced by AI. You're getting replaced by a coworker using AI. It doesn't matter how poorly AI performs at any remotely complicated task, what matters is how many developer-hours it saves by not having to manually write as much boilerplate.
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Re: Will AI take web developer jobs?
#29It will happen when we stop using the web as "the web" and treat it as a Software as a Service delivery network.
Re: Will AI take web developer jobs?
#30AI creates bloated, sometimes nonsensical output that often straight-up doesn't work. It's perfect for replacing web developers. It can make mobile apps, too.
Lol, yeah that pretty much sums up my experience with modern apps.