With the quality that software companies consider acceptable becoming lower and lower, it's quite possible that many of them will stop hiring frontend developers (and possibly designers). Frontends will then be vibe-coded by backend developers. This is actually already happening. I see a lot of vibe-coded prototypes thrown around at work (at two companies) that don't even get any frontend consultancy.
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@yatil not like we started from a baseline of decent quality to begin with …
This will be awesome, I can’t wait to use the website
These companies often care significantly more about the stability and performance of their own infrastructure than that of their user-facing results. I think that's one of the factors that historically fed into frontend devs getting paid less than backend devs. And designers and QAs less than frontend devs.
@kleinfreund This is 100% happening.