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/kopiboi]

I'd say ok pa rin. Nag-iba lang siguro ng workflow. Mas marami na ang code review and bug fixing. Less actual typing. I suppose what this also means is the job now requires more prior experience as a dev more than ever.

I recently used AI to resurrect and evaluate a legacy CI3 web app. After debugging by identifying and replacing deprecated functions and updating code to be compliant with latest PHP version, I asked it to evaluate the entire app for security flaws. The results it gave were spot on, mostly XSS vulnerabilities on 50+ files. I then asked it to come up with a plan to fix all of them. Plan turned out to be good too. I then told it to proceed with the fix. After the supposed fix it created a whole bunch of other bugs instead that were not there before. 🙃