Companies have full-stack expectations, so we need full-stack tooling. Junior front-end engineers are already feeling threatened by low-code-llm-agents. LLMs h

Companies have full-stack expectations, so we need full-stack tooling. Junior front-end engineers are already feeling threatened by low-code-llm-agents. LLMs have strong aesthetic sensibilities and the functional nature of modern front-end frameworks means that LLMs can get good at them, really fast. HTMX allows junior engineers to develop as front end and backend engineers at the same time. So if one profession is threatened, they still have a backup. We've entered the Honda civic / Toyota Camry era of visual design for standard websites and apps. The UI isn't a selling point as it once used to be. If anything, customers prefer familiarity. (Frontier tech like ML and VR are obvious exclusions) Most front end problems are civics and camrys. Yes, LLMs won't be able to build the ferrari equivalent of front ends, but they're going to be fully capable of doing CRUD competently. Too many engineers were trained to build the next Google or Facebook through the 2010s. In reality, calling them a tiny minority would still be an exxageration. Most engineers at google and Facebook don't build Google or Facebook, let alone those working at normal companies at normal scale with normal customers.