There's a growing crowd on Twitter that thinks frontend is dying. That the future of AI is pure chat. OpenClaw runs through Telegram. Poke operates through texting. Manus is adding WhatsApp. No app, no UI, just messages.
And I'm over here so fatigued by chat that I barely read the responses anymore.
As AI continues to evolve, many professionals (especially software developers like myself) are coming to terms with the reality that their jobs will eventually be automated. Maybe in two years, maybe in five. But it’s happening.
Yet, amidst this shift, a certain group seems oddly confident in their immunity to AI-driven disruption: the idea guys.
These are the people who believe that once AI automates programming and other forms of technical labor, the true value will shift to those who can generate great ideas. But I don't buy it. Sure, there's a timeline where this could be true. But in most cases, the idea guy is just as doomed as the software developer, if not more so.