Is there any future to start learning Web Development Nowdays

As we know that AI is used every where. I want to know your's suggestion, Is it profitable to start learning web development from zero nowdays

Programming, and especially web development is one of the most unique industries in that you can PROVE you know what you're doing by making some side projects and showing it off. I'm a self-taught developer and have tons of "experience" because I just started making stuff, it's the best way to learn. Just go out there and make cool stuff and run into problems and learn from them and you'll be a pro in no time.

First of all, if it bleeds it leads. People of all levels are fired every day. Why don't you have equivalent statistics for all of the people hired during the same time? Its because nobody cares about who was hired, really. That's not scary and anxiety inducing at all. It won't be reported on. You're setting the bar at unobtainable - "nobody is ever fired". We're in a capitalism here, not a communism.No, the coding dream is not dead. Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence are just other forms of coding - I'm not quite sure what distinction you're drawing between "coding this" or "coding that". It is still structuring things in patterns to convince the computer to do the right thing. Different ways of defining transformations and rules do not make it not coding.
Naturally the more talented you are in a lot of specifics, the better. Be super good at React and how it interacts with css to make web pages display and it won't be hard for you to find a job. Also, sometimes whomever you're working for will decide to fire you. Inescapable. Not even a failure on YOUR part. THEIR failures cause that to happen.

If you mean by web dev HTML, CSS and JavaScript, I'd say it's pretty useless to learn something that can be easily generated by AI, but programming itself can't be dead unless AI itself become self aware which is doubtful.

So you think AI can custom create a website for my business? It won't require manual interaction of a human that has web development knowledge?

alonelywriter said:

So you think AI can custom create a website for my business? It won't require manual interaction of a human that has web development knowledge?

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Ever heard about website builders? and that's not even AI, there will be human interaction for some serious stuff but with AI there'll less work which means less money

goodbye tobey said:

Ever heard about website builders? and that's not even AI, there will be human interaction for some serious stuff but with AI there'll less work which means less money

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Since when did website builders didn't require human interaction of a website developer?

Can you give a layman Computer, wordpress login and elementor? Tell him to create a custom website for my restaurant that accepts online orders and payments from customers?
Will he be able to do it? Scrap that can even a junior dev do that?

Similarly Learning web dev isn't a bad thing. You just need to adapt to AI. Work around it. Use it to make your work easy.

hery_jmeca said:

As we know that AI is used every where. I want to know your's suggestion, Is it profitable to start learning web development from zero nowdays

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Of course, it's financially feasible to start learning web development. Especially there is a huge demand for (full-stack) programmers, and recently, WordPress released its new full-site editing framework.
There are loads of classic themes made for WP, and more and more website owners are switching to the more optimized FSE editor because it's lighter and easier to modify.
My suggestion would be to learn the basics of block coding (this is a great resource) and start creating block themes.

goodbye tobey said:

Ever heard about website builders? and that's not even AI, there will be human interaction for some serious stuff but with AI there'll less work which means less money

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Serious companies don't go with "website builders". By serious doesn't necessary mean big companies, a small company can also be a serious one and I work with serious people only.

Those companies want a unique identity for their projects, they want performance, to be different and better, something a website builder by it's nature can't do, a human "artistic" touch it's always needed.
And guess what.. small projects also need this to have their "chance" in the market.

There is always room for web developers, probably with AI assistance which will put the bar higher in terms of singularity and what a single developer can do.

My 2 cents.

hery_jmeca said:

As we know that AI is used every where. I want to know your's suggestion, Is it profitable to start learning web development from zero nowdays

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Yes it is still profitable to learn web developement from scratch. You can always use AI to boost your productivity and get things done much faster. You can look at the website in my signature. I am a self-taught programmer and I have done everything from scratch. Ofcourse I have used AI to generate code snippets here and there but the design language, and the core functionality of the website is done entirely by me. Also it is my first self-coded website. Earlier I used to use WordPress for everything.

Thanks to all for your knowledge and suggestion.

Ikari Shinji said:

Programming, and especially web development is one of the most unique industries in that you can PROVE you know what you're doing by making some side projects and showing it off. I'm a self-taught developer and have tons of "experience" because I just started making stuff, it's the best way to learn. Just go out there and make cool stuff and run into problems and learn from them and you'll be a pro in no time.

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Definitely, I agree. There's always room for Creativity and Human creations.

Web development is a service where you work with people so AI won't be able to kill it too soon.

Your success will have little to do with the technical part, but with your ability to sell yourself.