> Management believes they can replace most of these employees with LLM-based automation I don't think this is materially true, it's just a nice narrative. (An

> Management believes they can replace most of these employees with LLM-based automation I don't think this is materially true, it's just a nice narrative. (And a way to entice investors, which, remember, is the CEO's job.) > Most websites are buggy, inaccessible, and broken It's been like this since at least 2010, so imo this isn't really anything new. We're just buggy in different ways. Switched from one footgun (jQuery) to another (React). > That’s an entire industry removed from the web developer job market. I'm not exactly sure what the "web media" sector is. Re-read that section like twice and I'm still confused. Programmatic advertising is dipping because things like FB/Google are losing out to TikTok and Instagram (& more tailor-made advertising). As someone that used to work in ad-tech, I don't really think those jobs are going away, just evolving in a post-Cambridge Analytica world. This has been in the works long before the LLM craze. > Here we come to the reason why I did this research and wrote this analysis. I keep asking myself: what should I do? The answer is always the same: start a company. I'm not sure why so many developers are terrified by the prospect. > Sometimes all the news you have to tell is bad. I dunno, I don't really see the doomerism here. I tend to be more optimistic than most, but even so, even if you can't get a job as a "web developer" (which really hasn't been a job title for about a decade now anyway), pivoting into data engineering, backend work, LLM work, infrastructure, etc. is not really that big of a leap.