The End of Front-End Development
I see posts like this comparing past attempts, and in this article even 1990s Homestead, and I immediately think this person does not get it.<p>Additionally all the statements that follow along the lines of &quot;GPT today has a hard time with xyz&quot; are all problematic too. Today is not tomorrow, and what it can do tomorrow is what we should be talking about.<p>The fact is in just 3 months we&#x27;ve gone from fairly basic code reviews to super helpful code reviews with code examples and intelligent code contextual comments.<p>Comparing GPT to Homestead or any number of early attempts to translate mockup to HTML+JS is unhelpful. This is wildly different technology. Talking about what GPT can do today and landing at &quot;it&#x27;s not good enough&quot; is also missing the point, we are nowhere near the limits of this tech and it&#x27;s evolving so fast that these assessments are not insightful in the slightest.<p>Talking about GPT as being merely a probability evaluator is also demonstrating the authors limited insight. WE ARE ALL probability evaluators. Humans work on prior experience, employ heuristics to make decisions based on that. GPT, indeed all AI, is more or less based on that paradigm. The difference is an AI can hold the whole of its learning in a perfectly memorized model. It doesn&#x27;t forget what&#x27;s in that model and can draw on billions of data points to make its probabilistic determinations. We pull on bias, false memories, misunderstandings, and so on. Now, that&#x27;s not to say AIs won&#x27;t also be afflicted by these comprehension errors, but that just doubles down on AI doing what humans do which is astounding either way.<p>Jobs are going to be lost, it&#x27;s a fact. Even if it&#x27;s just that junior who was learning code reviews and supporting basic development, that job will be around for maybe a year or two at the rate we are moving.