- I've spoken with lots of early-career devs who are getting more and more anxious about AI. They've seen the increasingly-impressive demos from tools like GPT-4, and they worry that by the time they're fluent in HTML/CSS/JS, there won't be any jobs left for them.
- I couldn't disagree more.?I don't think web developer jobs are going anywhere. And I'm getting pretty sick of the?FUD??being spread online.
- Last week, OpenAI did a?showcase of GPT-4. This featured a pretty impressive demo: GPT-4 can take a hand-drawn sketch of a website, and turn it into fully-functional website, including a bit of JS to wire up the “Reveal Punchline” button.
- This is remarkable, and I think it has a lot of potential when it comes to prototyping…?But let's be clear:?we haven't needed web developers to build these sorts of pages?in decades.?There is an?enormous?difference between this HTML document and the sorts of code front-end developers write today.
- AI isn't magic. It's only as good as its training data. There are very few large open-source codebases. How's the AI supposed to learn how to build big real-world projects?
- I think the most likely scenario is that tools like GPT-4 become integrated into developer tooling, and used to amplify what a skilled developer can do.
- Carpenters weren't replaced by power tools, accountants weren't replaced by spreadsheets, photographers weren't replaced by digital cameras / smartphones*, and I don't think that developers will be replaced by LLMs.
- Let me be clear:?I'm not an economist, and this is all wild speculation. I'm not saying that I know it'll shake out this way for a fact. What I'm saying is that it's not a foregone conclusion that this will be?bad?for us. Nobody knows how this will shake out, and I'm getting a bit tired of people acting like the worst-case scenario is a?fait accompli.?
- That said, everything in this blog post is based on my true beliefs. You can decide for yourself if those beliefs are biased or not.
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2 年Yeah I did search for few codes myself and according to me there's still time for AI to take over Frontend completely because the companies require their own designs to be implemented.