My colleague Yuri Westplat showed me an AI that could generate a working website by following a few commands that you type into a textarea. He also showed me a tool that could generate a pretty complicated interactive web thing, again by typing a few descriptive sentences into a textarea. And the results weren’t even much worse than the sites we use today. So should we worry?
Should we?
When I was still working as a frontend developer, a long long time ago, all the designers I worked with used photoshop to create images of websites. Back then, photoshop had all kinds of features that were not native to the web, like border-radius, gradients, blend-modes and shadows. We had to use hacks in order to make our websites look like photoshop. Nowadays people use tools like figma. These tools use a subset of CSS , which means that it is much easier to build a working website from a figma mockup, w