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As a JavaScript developer I anticipate there will be no changes even with the advancement of AI. JavaScript developers will continue to be poorly prepared and
by austin-cheney 3y ago
As a JavaScript developer I anticipate there will be no changes even with the advancement of AI. JavaScript developers will continue to be poorly prepared and entirely reliant upon large frameworks to do most of their job for them. Employers will continue to hire these people and continue to set low expectations.
AI will impose no changes, because demand for skilled labor will remain unchanged and investment in proper training will remain absent. The world has had the web for 30 years and fast JavaScript for about 15 years and still has not solved for this, so based upon historical trends this will remain unchanged and AI will not be significant enough. In order for the necessary disruption to occur employers must be willing to impose internal automation in excess of external output and simultaneously lowering hiring wages. Since neither of these conditions have ever occurred there will continue to be no disruption resulting in continually rising JavaScript developer wages.
I do anticipate one major change in hiring for JavaScript developers though, which is skills diversification. I anticipate JavaScript developers will become expected to have a greater diversity of skills outside of merely writing text to screen in a browser and may be folded into a sub-component of cloud engineering.