ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Everyone's screaming that AI is coming for frontend developers. Mauro Accorinti thinks most of them are missing the point.
In this episode I sit down with Mauro, the writer behind Exceptional Frontend, to talk about why "frontend" is way more defensible than the doomers want you to believe.
Spoiler: it was never just about centering a div.
We get into:
Why "irreplaceable" is a skill, not a job title. AI can spit out components all day. It still can't translate messy business problems into something a real human wants to use. That gap is where your value lives.
The business-impact thing nobody teaches you. Mauro's whole thing is helping devs connect their technical work to outcomes the company actually cares about. Turns out "I shipped a feature" and "I moved the number that pays everyone's salary" are very different sentences.
Is frontend actually dying, or is mediocre frontend dying? (Hint.)
How to think about your career when the AI overlord keeps moving the goalposts. Practical stuff, not vibes.
If you write code for a living and you've felt that low-grade panic every time a new model drops, this one's for you.
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