"It is only the underlying interest that makes us continue to learn new things ..." - Hassan Mian, CEO at Will & Skill.

CEO at Will & Skill, at the receiving end of 'Award for best solution for the general public' at Hack For Sweden 2016 and has a MSc in Human Computer Interaction at KTH, Hassan is by all means a great candidate to answer questions about the future of Fullstack development. Hassan answers questions about DevOps, web-builders, automatization in web development and IT-schools.

How do you think A.I. and/or automation will affect web development and web agencies in the next few years?

?I think A.I. will definitely affect web development and web agencies in the near future. Not so much in the scary way that it has been talked about (A.I. to build sites automatically) but more about what kind of services we will be able to implement in our systems. Everything from Sentiment Analysis to writing nicer blog posts to dynamic content depending on the user's previous interactions, which in my opinion sounds very exciting.

59.3% of all respondents to Stack Overflow's survey on how developers learn to code, learned to code online and not through a school. What do you think schools should do to catch up with the wide range of education available online?

A few things to keep in mind when it comes to education and training in programming are:

• Programming is a way of thinking.
• Programming is used to solve problems.
• Syntax is only one tool, it is how this tool is implemented that is important.
• Theory gives us tools to communicate our way of thinking in a way that others understand.
• It is only the underlying interest that makes us continue to learn new things that makes us continue to develop as developers.

?With that said, it will be the task of the school and education to create an interest and curiosity about the subject (in addition to the obvious hard-skills needed). I think that courses in programming should focus on having interesting projects, which leads to curiosity about the subject and then present the tools needed to solve the project.?Although the range of online education is very large, I think it is difficult to get things explained on a personal level. It is important to shape their parables in a way that is rooted in the specific person's previous experiences.

According to a case study on Liberty Mutual Insurance, their team can distribute code 200x faster with the help of DevOps. How high a priority should a team have on hiring and using DevOps/DevOps roles?

DevOps is a very interesting phenomenon that I think is becoming increasingly important. In a world where the code is expected to move from development to production within minutes, the previously outdated distribution processes must be reviewed. A team that dares to distribute and can easily roll back any errors is significantly more "authorized" than one that can not. By having automatic processes for distribution and QA, we can reduce lead times that have previously required manual processing.

What do you think is the next big trend for web development?

?The web has become very large and the trend in the future will be about personalizing and adapting the web experience to the specific individual. Web development in its entirety will also/has been moved outside the web and is today also available on other platforms such as IoT devices, mobile applications, etc.

What does the future hold for website/design builders like Squarespace or Webflow?

?They will definitely have a space to exist. By creating simple tools where you can launch and site without developing, we make the web best for smaller organizations and companies. This then leads to an interest from these companies to build more complex systems which then entails more work to develop.

Will & Skill ?is a digital agency with a burning interest in developing products and services and is located in Stockholm, Sweden.

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