Job will be okay. Career is over. Maybe we should join the writers on the picket line?

The more people say that, the less convincing it is

There is no way I would have a UI developer onboarded when I can generate many iterations of layouts in midjourney, copy them into chatgpt4 and get code in NextJS with Typescript instantly

non devs will have trouble doing this or thinking of the prompts to ask, but the dev team asking for headcount simply wont ask for headcount, and the engineering manager is going to find the frontend only dev redundant

Yeah, I'm also skeptical about the actual value of specialists in the future. To me, AI brings a ton of power to generalists, who now have access to very powerful tools that would have taken them a long time to learn otherwise.

Absolutely, it is the triumph of the generalist.

I would even go further and say the generalist gains a powerful tool belt that previously could not have existed. Not enough hours in the day or years in a lifetime.

> There is no way I would have a UI developer onboarded when I can generate many iterations of layouts in midjourney

I guess we have to face the music and say yeah, that's true. If the work doesn't need copyrights then this seems like the way to go.

Will you then use the AI to scale your platform ? Optimise your database ? Improve your test coverage, implement new features, write new backend services, integrate with old difficult but critical systems?

At some stage you must realise that you’re still working…

put our two comments into an LLM and ask if it these are even related thoughts

because at least it will have actually read my comment

I’m going to say you edited or amended you comment because that second paragraph wasn’t there , if it was. I was so underwhelmed with the first I guess I didn’t bother with the second.

my comment is over 3 hours old, it is not possible to have edited by the time you wrote yours

what does any of this have to do with frontend?

> when I can generate many iterations of layouts in midjourney, copy them into chatgpt4 and get code in NextJS with Typescript instantly

Have you actually tried this?

I did the first step and even that didn't work well. The "iterations of layout in MidJourney" step. If people can make it work, well bless them, but we're not getting rid of our graphic designer now.

The best counterargument to “GPT4 is going to replace us all” is actually using it for a couple of weeks.

It has a few neat tricks but it’s not reliable and at least half of what it generates is totally unusable, the other half requires heavy intervention and supervision.

I don’t have multimodal access yet