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I disagree, because most of the frontend work I’ve been involved with over the past 10 years or so isn’t just blindly implementing mockups. Actual UI engineeri
by gedy 3y ago
I disagree, because most of the frontend work I’ve been involved with over the past 10 years or so isn’t just blindly implementing mockups. Actual UI engineering work usually involves making the feature a logical reality. Product and UX have a great ideas, but they’re not engineers and it usually takes a lot of work to make these ideas match the reality of the domain, making things consistent with UI patterns, existing components, web standards, etc.
I’m honestly not worried about AI being the programmer for UX people, that’s for sure. I think creating mockups are a bigger target for AI.
Also, this work is usually the best starting point for a meaningful domain API, and helps drive the backend as well.
- yankaf 3y agowell, thats not how it will work, wait 5 more years, you will be either jobless or will have to transit to something else. Frontend is either for bots or for extremly creative people who can make stuff for bots, so they can get trained on it. and I agree if something like this can be done, Entire software engineering is going down, Most people even in the very complex seeming tasks are doing the copy paste thing, all day
- gedy 3y agoMaybe, but backend seems more squeezed at companies I've dealt with TBH. Not AI related, but startup I was at introduced Hasura (GraphQL on top of Postgres), and eliminated most of the work the backend folks were doing (even though they didn't like mapping frontend API calls to data all day)