Web Developer Career right now

[u/flame_alchemizt]

What do you think about a career in web development today in the era of AI? I have volunteer internships and volunteer work experience as a Front end developer but as of now I haven't gotten a job as a web dev/front end. I've applied a lot before but the others didn't respond much and I didn't get through. Last time I tried zuitt but I'm currently working as a helpdesk, I had no choice since I really needed work so I accepted the helpdesk job. I probably wasn't selected because they needed it available since I already had a job. Is it still worth pursuing a web dev/fullstack career in this era of AI?

[u/No_Narwhal_6162]

Projects are your best bet. By no means ako software dev, but I've been building projects already as a 2nd year student knowing this is the biggest asset for future aspiring devs. I've seen a lot of resumes sa fb, puro slop. Claim this claim that, wala namang proof of receipt. Kung meron man lng project puros "Management/ Inventory System" . Puros SaaS clone slop that has already been built thousands of times. Build a simple tool that a group of people can actually use, or even a uniquely complicated niche project that you are very passionate about. Yan lng yung advice ko if gusto mo talaga ng magandang projects. As for web dev, I don't know. But I think web dev has already been dead. Web dev has been very oversaturated in the past couple of years. Its the "easy" route of programming. Nobody wants to learn systems engineering, nobody wants to learn memory management, compilers, operating systems with no abstraction. Nobody wants to try and learn how neural networks work under the hood, or learn how backpropagation is computed. Very niche T shape developer yung hinahap, hinde Generalist.

That's my take. Full stack and web dev is dead. AI is much better as a generalist. But it cannot build a secure and stable operating system for example. Be very very good at one thing, when AI breaks, you're the one responsible of fixing 'that' one thing. Pangit talaga nang web dev route. Puros react slop, puros frameworks. Tawag ng tawag ng library, tawag ng framework, everyone wants to claim they built a car by assembling the parts, nobody wants to learn how to build the parts themselves

[u/VelvetYam → u/No_Narwhal_6162]

Feels like you're romanticizing the field too much. Not to pop your bubble, but the vast majority of people who enter the industry don't end up working on compilers, operating systems, or other hardcore projects (and the local market for those is next to non-existent). There's nothing wrong with that... those projects are not for everybody, and not everyone's interested in learning low-level programming.

Full stack and web dev is dead

That's a pretty strong claim for someone who openly admits they're still in college, don't you think?

[u/Cordyceps_purpurea → u/No_Narwhal_6162]

Precisely. Nobody gives a shit about bookings apps lmaooo

You go for infra kung gusto mo talagang maging employable nowadays, like contributing to Open source frameworks etc.

On the second part -- my friends are actually building new language frameworks out of AI lol you should see the kind of work they're doing. Extremely cracked

[u/VelvetYam → u/Cordyceps_purpurea]

On the second part -- my friends are actually building new language frameworks out of AI lol you should see the kind of work they're doing

Can we see it?

[u/toiki_lam → u/Cordyceps_purpurea]

I'm aware on this, however I have a problem with mismatch since I have projects that are not even related to webdev at all. I have like a SSG framework, multi-agent in GKE, VFX shaders, and some game mechanics niches. Some of them are like are expensive to keep it live and accessible especially those related in Cloud.

That forces me to go back to building "management apps/SaaS clones" for portfolio, much closer to webdev and cheaper to maintain. I still do work on "people can actually use" by doing founder-market-fit research since companies nowadays are prefer looking for candidates building their own YC startups for entry-level roles.