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> Steer away from skills like web development that are clearly getting eaten by LLMs.

You had it going well there but then had to ruin it with a take like that.

If you’re talking about your trivial, github-filled example scenarios of frontend, sure. But then we could say the same for all other roles, including backend logic that’s regurgitated all the time.

Like with everything else, the non-trivial bits need work and skills.

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Except that they’re right, a your “non-trivial bits” will like 5% and rest will be dealing with idiots copy pasting AI slop.

I'd personally try to stay away from anything built this way, if I can get a whiff of it (and it's not super hard to find the slop right now). But, even if learn to agree on this for the share of throwaway apps or internal tools that might not need sophistication or care, my point was that the same take applies to the backend side as well and I'd argue that's a more at-risk domain since data is usually in a serializable format to be fed into LLMs and doesn't have the challenges of visual input.

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