Everywhere I look, people are saying:
“Don’t go into web dev anymore.”
“Full stack is saturated.”
And honestly, I get why this narrative is spreading — especially among students aiming for 2027 placements.
But I think we’re blaming the wrong thing.
What I’m actually seeing around me
The problem isn’t web development.
The problem is how we’re learning it.
Right now, most people are doing something like this:
Pick a popular tutor/course
Follow along line by line
Build the exact same projects
Move to the next tutorial
And after a few months, everyone ends up with:
The same portfolio
The same stack
The same level of understanding
It starts feeling less like learning and more like completing homework.
The “same tutor” problem
Let’s be honest — most of us are learning from a very small set of creators.
Nothing wrong with that. The issue is what comes after.
We:
Don’t question what we’re taught
Don’t go beyond the tutorial
Don’t try alternative approaches
So instead of developers, we’re becoming:
People who know how to follow instructions.
That’s a dangerous place to be.
Where things actually break: Thinking
This is the part no one talks about enough.
I feel like critical thinking has reduced a lot in how we learn dev.
For example:
We use libraries without asking why this one?
We copy code without understanding trade-offs
We don’t try breaking things to see how they work
So when something goes wrong:
→ we’re stuck
→ because we never really understood it
So is web dev saturated?
At the surface level — yes.
But it’s saturated with:
People who learned the same things in the same way.
That’s very different from saying:
“Web dev has no opportunities.”
Good developers are still rare.
What I think actually matters now
From what I’ve observed, the difference is simple:
Not:
How many tutorials you completed
But:
How much you explored beyond them
Some shifts I’m trying to make myself:
Not jumping to the next tutorial immediately
Rebuilding things without looking
Asking “what if I do this differently?”
Trying to break my own code and fix it
It’s slower, but it actually sticks.
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Nice insights