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Laurie Voss @seldo.com

What's your definition of a web developer?

aug 24, 2025, 11:37 pm • 3 0

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Ryan Trimble @ryantrimble.com

a person who knows how to build websites and web applications a person who makes a website with an LLM is more like a client asking a web developer to make a website, the person still doesn't know how it's done if someone wants to be a developer, there's like million free courses available

aug 24, 2025, 11:58 pm • 2 0 • view
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com

How do you define "knows how to build websites"?

aug 24, 2025, 11:59 pm • 4 0 • view
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Ryan Trimble @ryantrimble.com

I already answered that, I'll make it a bit clearer: people who learn how to do a skill, know how to do that skill a person who doesn't learn a skill, can use an LLM to perform that skill, still does not have that skill themselves

aug 25, 2025, 12:15 am • 2 0 • view
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com

That definition is pretty circular. What is the "skill" of web development? What specifically?

aug 25, 2025, 12:18 am • 5 0 • view
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Ryan Trimble @ryantrimble.com

I'll answer this for folks who may actually be interested in becoming web developers - this is broad, but a great jumping off point: to be a web developer, there are many different skills to learn you should not be scared of learning new skills, in fact skills broaden your horizons greatly

aug 25, 2025, 12:45 am • 0 0 • view
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Ryan Trimble @ryantrimble.com

Skills necessary to become a web developer depend on your area of interest if you are into design and user experience, maybe consider becoming a frontend web developer if you are more interested in databases and servers, you might be a backend web developer it's good to be a human with interests

aug 25, 2025, 12:45 am • 0 0 • view
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Ryan Trimble @ryantrimble.com

For Frontend web development, you will want to have a firm understanding of the web platform fundamentals: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript once you have become comfortable working and authoring with these tools, maybe check out a reactive frontend framework (maybe)

aug 25, 2025, 12:45 am • 0 0 • view
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Ryan Trimble @ryantrimble.com

For backend web developer, there are many different programming languages and frameworks available to learn, such as: .NET, PHP, Ruby, Python, and more! Along with server-side languages, be sure to checkout databases and APIs!

aug 25, 2025, 12:45 am • 0 0 • view
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Ryan Trimble @ryantrimble.com

Some folks think they can do it all, and consider themselves to be fullstack web developers once you've acquired any of these skills and have a firm understanding of how to implement things safely and securely - then maybe consider using LLMs, however you'll probably notice the mistakes they make

aug 25, 2025, 12:45 am • 0 0 • view
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Ryan Trimble @ryantrimble.com

learning skills can be challenging, but ultimately very rewarding

aug 25, 2025, 12:45 am • 0 0 • view
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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social

If you can't write, at a bare-minimum, HTML, you're not a web developer. WYSIWG authoring is not web development. Copy/paste from LLMs is not web development.

aug 25, 2025, 4:56 pm • 2 0 • view