27 Aug 2026 · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
In reply to <a href="https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/#comment-238445">DHPersonal</a>. Yeah, I definitely think things will change dramatically when the bubble pops. What I don't believe is that LLMs or AI agents will dissolve into the ether when that happens. I've already gotten a lot of value out of open-weight models: Kimi K3 for example is pretty adequate for routine coding tasks in my experience. And m…
27 Aug 2026 · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>About "AI Tiredness" , i facing too, even i stop open youtube because of too many youtubers make content about AI</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
27 Aug 2026 · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
In reply to <a href="https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/#comment-238444">DHPersonal</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> Sorry, that should be “public <em>opinion </em>of AI” in my previous post. <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
27 Aug 2026 · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
<!-- wp:quote --> <blockquote><!-- wp:paragraph --> It’s destabilizing to imagine your career going along a certain trajectory, serenely landing at retirement, and then to see everything upset just a few years from your goal. <!-- /wp:paragraph --></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> If it can be disrupted once then it can be disrupted again. Everyone is so quick to say “AI is here to stay” when it wasn’t here just a few years a…
27 Aug 2026 · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Good read. Interesting times </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
26 Aug 2026 · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
<!-- wp:paragraph --> On the matter of education, I feel something similar to what I feel about AI writing: even if AI could definitely surpass the abilities of most humans, I still find joy on reading (and learning) from real people with real life stories. <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
26 Aug 2026 · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
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25 Aug 2026 · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
[…] The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development Nolan Lawson: the agent could mess up accessibility, it could cause an infinite loop that blocks users, etc. […]
25 Aug 2026 · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
[…] The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development Nolan Lawson: the agent could mess up accessibility, it could cause an infinite loop that blocks users, etc. […]
25 Aug 2026 · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
In reply to <a href="https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/#comment-238433">Nolan Lawson</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> As technology continues to evolve, user experience has become more important than ever. Students who develop design thinking, research, and creative problem-solving skills today are preparing themselves for exciting opportunities in tomorrow’s digital world. <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:pa…
24 Aug 2026 · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
In reply to <a href="https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/#comment-238434">Quebo</a>. At the micro-level I might agree with you, but once you start talking about Kubernetes, backoff, retries, auto-scaling, load, database transactions, queues, microservices, race conditions, etc., I think the backend is full of a lot more things that can go catastrophically wrong and cause an incident. In a typical software company, I…
24 Aug 2026 · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>What a silly article and I didn't even read it. Backend is more deterministic and easier for AI to take over, expected some data-in and some data-out, the strength about backend is that nobody knows that exists and C-level peeps don't understand it neither. nobody can see or understand errors in the backend.<br><br>The frontend is harder, dealing with way too many complex things, screen sizes, colors, resolutions, and the hardest one the…
24 Aug 2026 · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
In reply to <a href="https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/#comment-238429">Sander van Dragt</a>. I did cover this a bit in a previous post (<a href="https://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-code-more-slowly/" rel="ugc">"Using AI to write better code more slowly"</a>), but I don't totally disagree with you. Agents can be used as more than shortcuts: they ca…
24 Aug 2026 · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
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24 Aug 2026 · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
In reply to <a href="https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/#comment-238430">Sander van Dragt</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And of course it posted right after asking me to login again. Apologies for the double post, what a login hell. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
24 Aug 2026 · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I had written a long response to ask why your conclusion is that the skill of frontend development is being challenged after proving to me how much learning you unlocked with a single prompt for someone not aware of what you were asking. Use llm agents as a personalised mentor not as a stack overflow replacement if you're looking for long term learning, is my advice. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
24 Aug 2026 · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>thanks for an interesting article. As a web developer who did not have the understanding that you received from the long agent I was a bit surprised with the conclusions you’ve drawn. <br></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I feel you’ve put what is a reasonably deep technical question (for the average web developer) to the ai agent, I learned a whole lot from the answer, and got a lot of context to follow up…
23 Aug 2026 · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
Front end development is dead.
23 Aug 2026 · Read the Tea Leaves
A lot of the educators I admire in the frontend web space seem to be either bowing out or dialing back their efforts: Axel Rauschmayer, Salma Alam-Naylor, Josh W. Comeau, to name a few. Other well-known luminaries like Kent C. Dodds, Addy Osmani, Rachel Nabors, and Lydia Hallie have pivoted from talking about frontend development […]
20 Aug 2026 · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Great post! Thanks for sharing this valuable information. Keep up the excellent work.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->