Web Developers

53% (Moderate Risk)

Moderate Risk (41-60%): Occupations with a moderate risk of automation usually involve routine tasks but still require some human judgment and interaction.

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Sentiment

The following graph is included wherever there is a substantial amount of votes to render meaningful data. These visual representations display user poll results over time, providing a significant indication of sentiment trends.

Wages

High paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Web Developers' was $84,960, or $40 per hour

'Web Developers' were paid 76.8% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

Wages over time

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Senior programmer 2 months ago

This job will be accessible only to passionate programming guys in the future. They learn coding stuff all the time for their entire life. If you want to learn once and then use it for decades, learn something else.

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Guest 20 days ago

And they will eat passion for dinner right?

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Jersey Jim (Highly likely) 2 months ago

If it is not automated, it will be offshored for peanuts. Getting a job is very tough. For the amount of knowledge necessary to actually be employed, your efforts are better rewarded doing something else. I just applied for a role, and the employer didn't just want the listed technologies, but a laundry list of other frameworks, languages, and tools.  If it requires so much knowledge now to get hired, imagine the future.

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OMID (Highly likely) 3 months ago

I see a lot of web builders online that makes impressive websites just by giving a prompt and in 20 years I don't see how people would pay humans to create website while there are a lot of impressive and super fast generative AIs out there. Which is just going to improve...

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Ivo (Low) 4 months ago

Yes, current versions of AI can spew out code that is semi-coherent even absolutely on point right now, but still requires a lot of oversight. I have doubts that it will be able to fully understand the assignments without detailed guidance, for which an actual person is needed. The AI will ease the work of developers, but not replace it.

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Kevin (Low) 5 months ago

The job of web development requires creativity, and thinking outside the box.

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Scorpreb (Moderate) 5 months ago

Nowadays, web development can easily be done with the help of AI and AI tools.

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Subbu (Uncertain) 5 months ago

Because, web developer's job is not a 100% human only job, but robots can't completely takeover as its might required human creativity

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The guy (Moderate) 6 months ago

Because AI might be good at helping you generate loops and snippets of code to find solutions, but asking an AI to make a dedicated, advanced and working app is like asking a cat to get off of your keyboard. It ain't going to happen.

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Roushan Gupta (Uncertain) 6 months ago

I voted uncertain because of human desire will change and hance complexity of automating this will change!

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mhm 5 months ago

That's a very valid point. Human desire is endless and it makes it more complex over and over. There's nowhere to end the problems, problems occur endlessly no matter how technologies improve.

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John (Moderate) 7 months ago

I am a web developer and often leverage AI. Once to test Gemini, I asked it to write me simple code in tailwind for a carousel based on the image input. I copy pasted the code into my VS code and guess what? The entire work I have been doing till now got bugged. I tried making some adaptive changes like renaming classes and all and finally, there was no reason to collide with my code. But still, the code doesn't seem to work.
What I am trying to say is AI is helpful but it can never be enough to give code for a customized fully functioning website because some aspects like hover colours all require some kind of human touch. While cheap dudes will be happy with these results, big businesses and brands still need web developers. Website is also more than coding and includes many aspects like brand identity, customer target, etc. something AI can't mimic.

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Chloe .c (Highly likely) 7 months ago

Since robots will be advanced enough to make it into the industry

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regret in choosing cs a 7 months ago

this job is doomed to be replaced, im surprised its not 100% risk on here, and i am doomed too

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The guy 6 months ago

No, because AI might be good at generating CSS and simple sorting logic for an array of numbers. But tell it to fix a problem in your code, and it will bug the app out. I asked for a solution once for my React app. It solved the problem, but later that day I found out it had created an infinite loop, which crashed my app when an event was called. I had to reset the back a few commits.

That is what one gets by blindly trusting the code AI gives you. 

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Jobless coder 7 months ago

Devin already killed this job...

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Sudip Paul (Low) 8 months ago

Because it's need creativity and understanding of whole context ai can't it can't build something of it's own totally new

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Egon (Highly likely) 8 months ago

The recent advancements seen in the use of ChatGPT, Devin and GitHub Copilot are all hinting that the jobs of beginners and moderately skilled Web-developers are highly likely to be taken by AI and its subsequent technologies.

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Mega_Mind 8 months ago

Although AI is capable of creating a website or web apps, it could never replace experienced people.
Imagine an average human trying to create a website. They have no idea about optimization, SEO, security, transferring a domain name, or any other variables and possibilities in the process of creating a website; There are countless things to consider.
An AI technology itself is in need for an engineer to maintain it.
I tried created some designs using AI, and I tragically failed because I have no experience in graphic design.

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stan (Highly likely) 8 months ago

chatgpt already can generate fully-fledged web pages that you can customize using prompts.

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Ivo 4 months ago

Web Developer doesn't do just design (which ChatGPT fails miserably by my experience), web developers can do front end and back end development. If you try to ask a chatbot to do a bit more complex assignment where static variables and functions are needed it cannot differentiate if it is needed or not. It regurgitates the code it was trained on and can parrot back real good. The job is pretty secure until a model appears that can mimic a creative thought.

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Sean (Highly likely) 9 months ago

AI is already able to generate code, in particular code that solves common and simple issues that already have solutions online as part of the AI's database. Currently the AI's code generation ability is not good enough to replace the developer but that will likely change in the next years as web development frameworks compete to integrate AI.

The integration of AI into these frameworks will allow it to generate and test much more complicate code effectively, allowing web designers to interatct with the framework on their own to get the code they need without any need for a developer, as the technical skill required to interact with such a framework will become much shallower.

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Anonymous 9 months ago

Front-end developers who only know how to utilize frameworks, (I will call them frameworkers) will be replaced by AI.

There are already front-ends built by AI that have been trained on frameworks. Front-end developers must upskill by learning actual low level programming to further develop their frameworks, or transition into a back-end role, which will require actual programming skills. Front-end developers who do know how to program will be alright.

Frameworking is in no way similar to software engineering, ie engineering frameworks, or back-end data pipes. Software engineers will not be replaced as they are the ones creating such frameworks for frameworkers and AI alike.

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The guy 6 months ago

As a front-end developer who pretty much only uses frameworks... I have never felt more insulted by her words with such truth! And just for that, I'm going back-end, just because of the spite I feel for you.

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Keith Lamb (No chance) 9 months ago

I believe it has no chance of automation because there will always be better ways to develop and change software and the original ideas that we create.

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