AI and the web developer

With AI becoming more and more prevalent in the world, as web developers we need to think about the effect it has on our work.

How the type of projects we will be working on going forward will incorporate AI, not only in the tools we use (things like CoPilot) but also the new projects we build will probably have some aspect of AI in them.

This means as front end developers we need to start understanding AI, how it works, the available APIs out there that we might need to implement within a new project.

So will AI take over all front end development roles? Probably not, but will we need to know how to work with it? Yes.

For me I’m excited about the opportunity. APIs like Googles Gemini look good and there’s plenty more out there. I’ve been lucky enough to work on a couple of projects that use AI in some capacity, and I’m looking forward to doing more projects like this.