Will AI take web developer jobs?
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Will AI take web developer jobs?
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Re: Will AI take web developer jobs?
#2AI will not take anyone's jobs. Executives looking to juice the value of their stock portfolio and cut expenses to create a better revenue story for the companies they run will fire people and attempt to smear "AI" all over their operations.
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#3I appreciate that Al describes what AI is bad at, what it's good at, and what types of products/work are at risk of being replaced.
Overall, I think building sophisticated apps/SaaS is safe because LLMs can't generate the overall quality experience that customers want.
But I agree with Al that AI allows people to generate apps for personal use and low-quality website templates.
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#4AI will not take anyone's jobs. Executives looking to juice the value of their stock portfolio and cut expenses to create a better revenue story for the companies they run will fire people and attempt to smear "AI" all over their operations.
I, for one, look forward to seeing the mess that results from the C-Suite lemmings all marching off the LLM cliff with their companies in tow.
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#5GPT4o-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.
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#6I’m pretty sure there are more web developers now than before DIY website builders like square space came out.
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#8It'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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#9AI 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.
Re: Will AI take web developer jobs?
#10It'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.
> the industry needs 10% less developers to achieve the same output
Maybe. Or maybe the industry will simply churn even more software due to increased possibilities and everything stays the same.