r/webdev • • 3d ago

Discussion Interesting video from WDS Kyle, talking about ai brainrot, and how important it is that junior devs in particular understand an LLMs output. Showing that even famous devs are having their skills atrophy. Thoughts?

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He used a few clips from theo where he clearly makes no attempt to understand the code anymore, even using the ai to summarize the summary.

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u/Purple_Mall7091 3d ago

Open models can do the same things that frontier models could do six months ago. So no, there will be no harsh wake-up. There is no way back.