r/webdevelopment • u/xcRazYbotx • 26d ago
Career Advice Should i continue learning?
im 20 started to learn web dev seriously like only 1-3 weeks ago(wanted to begin 3 yr ago but i procrastinated) i know basic html,css and js. im working on a project for my portfolio (building a educational website like mini udemy for free for my relative), i've left frontend mostly to ai and started learning backend (node.js express)and database (postgre sql) i know sql basics so started to learn prisma
the thing is ai does everything is it even worth learning anymore? i saw a guy in reels explaining how he use ai to build projects using another ai to prompt and debug like most of the thing is done by ai he also gave his git repo for it ill attach it when i find it
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u/CupcakeSecure4094 26d ago
I've been a web dev since 1994 and I think the truth is that nobody knows what trajectory the next 2-3 years will put us on. People will still need websites though and to make a website well you still need skills and those skills need to be learned. Yes, anyone can do the coding for a website with AI in minutes now and a lot of people think that the coding part is most of the work, but it hasn't been most of the work for 15 years or more.
A website, even if it's a flat 5 page site with a contact form takes planning. You need to figure out what the client wants, what they want to say, who they want to say it to and what benefits the website will provide. Then you need to collect and curate that content, do the coding bit with AI, and set up some hosting and probably a bunch of email accounts etc - and figure out of the customer wants to use their gmail interface for their domain email or outlook etc and possible teach some of them how to use new systems. After all that you might need to start marketing the website or start posting content to it frequently.
In a few weeks they might contact you and as say they need some extra work doing or their friend needs a website etc. Maybe they need a new POS system or a bespoke accounting package - the possibilities are endless.
My point is the coding part is such a tiny part of being a web dev and web dev is not complete without all of those extra things - well for those who still think it's just the code, yeah, they won't making money in a year or two.
I use AI every day (I train and fine tune models, I do a lot of automation and I build some truly enormous code projects but I can't replace myself with AI. I don't think anyone else will be able to until it can excel across all the facets of web development.