alt Hacker NewsIt really feels as though my 20 year career as a front end developer is coming to a very abrupt end; at least as I have know it these past two decades.
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From my experience every (senior) developer with enough tokens always finds useful stuff to do. Some variation of Jevons paradox.
I tried making a Things clone yesterday.
Spent maybe 7 hours of promoting with Fable.
I wanted to get drag and drop right, and I wanted good code architecture to start with.
It’s using TinyBase for data storage.
Here’s how far I got in 7 hours: https://focuslist.app
Yes, much faster than writing all of that by hand.
But prompting quality software into existence? No way. It would take at least another full time week to finish that app with all the detail I desire.
I'm envious you got to enjoy it for 20 years
really? I have yet to see fable or 5.6 reliably generate front end code with correct a11y, for one thing -- does that not matter to the work you do?
All software engineering is over as we know it. I haven't written a line of code since December 2025.