r/AskProgramming • u/Unhappy_Finger_6545 • 1d ago

Career/Edu Is web dev dead?

I'm in my second year of college, and I started learning web dev a few weeks ago. But since AI can code a website within seconds I wonder if the job I'm preparing for will even exist in the next 3-5 years?

I know that knowing html and css wasn't going to get me a job anyways and I'm not worried about that I'm worried about the job availability in this field in general, even backend and stuff.

Maybe AI is not good at it right now but it'll definitely get better in the next 5 years, will the jobs disappear then?

Should I learn something else instead of web dev, from a purely monetary perspective?

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u/MissinqLink 1d ago

No it’s just soulless

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u/Logical-Idea-1708 1d ago

Any part of the CRUD app is soulless

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u/Soft-Marionberry-853 1d ago

I respect people that can do it, but yeah doing CRUD webapp work was killing me. Each night I would go to sleep thinking "Thats it, this is my career now until I retire and then Im going to die" Im working as a dev now at a place now without a webapp in site.

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u/Blinkinlincoln 23h ago

I see, in sight. What you did there. Good insight.