This is gonna be short one and its just something that I have been seeing following the recent launch of that stupid OpenAI project, we all love and hate, chatGPT.
If you have not been under a damn rock, you would be aware the market for developers has plummeted since December 2022, like the respect for that mob boss in the sopranos (You know who I mean, don't you? right?).
And Of course the first group that got hit were the frontend devs. And we all know why: it's because of chatGPT. But is it? That is the consensus right now, but - and the older dudes who are longer in the industry can back me up - that is not the whole truth.
The truth is (this is sounding like a soviet magazine) that a giant ass ecosystem around no-code tools has been growing under our nose and nobody really amongst the devs picket it up, except the ones with the money: corporate idiots, Linkedin gurus, bootcamp geniuses etc. you get the idea.
Now the facts part: Big Mega Corporation such as APPLE are already using nocode platforms (which they coded themselves) to do most of what the frontend devs were reponsible for. I know this for a fact, having worked a few months as an intern at Apple back in college. And this is 8 years ago. And I am sure as those platforms are getting better and easier to handle for people who cannot code at all, the frontend devs get the shit. Make it what you will.
But why am I worried? Well, the current commercial no-code platforms (I am not naming any names as I am not affiliated and they are getting enough attention already) are getting really good at doing the code and working with APIS and Webhooks as well. So obviously companies will, mostly new ones are never gonna hire devs in the fist place. Developers will become freelancers, hired just to fix the mess that the design department is producing, or hell, even the buggy platforms themselves are creating. Maybe that is a good thing. We all wanted home office and freedom anyway right? right?
Share your thoughts... I did not wish to keep this to scientific, it's just something we all feel and nobody expresses.
Top comments (3)
That's a hard take on the current situation, I think. I would rather delve on the last argument: the kind of work devs do is changing, but the industry is not disappearing. The best we devs can do is learn to adapt and get good at navigating this changing landscape 🫡
I agree, but you know it better than me I presume: most devs are just in for the money (which is totally fine) but it affects the industry. Blockchain is where people should go now if they want is money. And we would finally get rid of half assed boot camp devs, because Blockchain requires some deep level knowledge, not your typical "hey I know html and bootstrap and express, give me a job".
Having worked for crypto startups I agree that there's money to be made, but they also need all kinds of roles! I've worked there with designers, frontend devs and boootcamp students and they would be out of a job if their skills weren't needed. I think that there are some very bad bootcamps and other very unskilled bootcamp students that are just messing everything up.