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> My issue is this: The title of “web developer” implies a certain level of skill and knowledge that people who merely prompt their way to a website generally d
by wavemode 1y ago
> My issue is this: The title of “web developer” implies a certain level of skill and knowledge that people who merely prompt their way to a website generally do not have. To call a prompter a web developer both elevates prompters and degrades web developers, in a way that, frankly, neither group deserves.
Implies to whom? There are many "web developers" who only know how to make WordPress websites, or Squarespace websites. At my old job at $MEGACORP, I worked alongside many "web developers" who really only knew how to configure SharePoint. Even basic HTML and CSS skills were scarce.
So yeah, I don't think LLMs have changed anything on this front. "Web developer" has never implied expertise to me. "Frontend engineer" perhaps slightly moreso, but even then you gotta really talk to the person to find out what they know or don't know.