[jMyles]

I've been engineering (mostly backend but lots of full stack too) web technologies for almost two decades. Not the world's greatest sage maybe, but I have some solid contributions to open source web frameworks, have worked on projects of all different scales from startups to enterprise media outfits, etc.

And I have this to say: any impediment to learning web development is probably a good thing insofar as the most difficult stumbling block isn't the learning at all, but the unlearning. The web (and its tangential technologies) are not only ever-changing, but ever-accelerating in their rate of change. Anything that helps us rely less on what we've learned in the past, and more on what we learn right in the moment of implementation, is a boon to great engineering.

Every one of the greatest engineers I've worked with doesn't actually know how to do anything until they're about to do it, and they have the fitness to forget what they've learned immediately so that they have to look at the docs again next time.

LLMs are lubricating that process, and it's wonderful.