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Is a person who prompts an LLM to generate a website a web developer? And if not, what is the difference, and why does that matter so much?
What’s not good is to denigrate web developers by asserting—implicitly or explicitly—that anyone who picks up a tool represents a precise 1:1 replacement for everything they are professionally; the entire sum total of their abilities and experience. For one, it’s easy to create an interface that appears to work correctly, when you only test in one browser, at one font size, at one zoom level, using one input device, on one screen size, on one operating system, on one device that’s probably less than two years old, with one set of user preferences, by one able-bodied author, on a high-speed connection, with no data restrictions, loading from one server that happens to be near to you, without the aid of any assistive technologies—and this is precisely where many people dabbling in web interfaces will stop and say “looks good to me!” I also suspect LLMs probably perform better in other areas of tech—dealing with backends and databases, say—where success criteria is better defined, best practices are well-established, correct examples are more plentiful in the training data, and things are generally less squishy.
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