Some Good News for Web Developers

Introduction

• Tired of all the negativity around development and AI, lets talk about some positive things that are happening the industry

Positive things

• Job numbers for developers are creeping up on indeed (thanks Per Borgen from Scrimba for posting this on X) https://x.com/perborgen/status/2024098528956441085?s=20
  • AI doesn’t seem to be taking many peoples jobs (unless you’re refusing to adapt to it)
  • Nvidia ran a experiment with thier 30k developers all getting access to cursor. It showed that although it led to 3x more commits it didn’t fundamentally change how they view hire. They just redefined what senior developers roles are in the company (more orchestrators, architects and validators)

• Interop 2026 just launched (literally last week, Feb 12th). All major browser vendors—Google, Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Igalia—announced they're tackling 20 focus areas together this year. Why this matters: Interop 2025 ended with a 97% pass rate across all browsers, meaning features actually work consistently now.
• AI actually makes our job easier
  • It’s anxiety inducing yes but not having to write boilerplate code, or really any code make our job easier for us. We can just speak into the machine as we would to a person and code comes out.
• Frameworks are maturing
  • Frameworks like Svelte, React and Vue have reached a pretty stable point where fundamentally they are all a) good and b) stable so it makes it easier to pickup anyone of these and build solid reactive UIs at any scale
  • AI helps ramp up and is getting good at learning all the major frameworks making the ‘AI Bias’ I talked about last year not really a thing anymore
  • There are still new frameworks coming out but the releases are far fewer then before