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Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

AI took away the sense of pride I used to have in what I create

(This is another rant about AI, don't read. its not something new, dont get angry if you read it i already told you) For context I'm 18m I began learning progra

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

Grudgingly accepting that AI isn't going away. Trying to figure out where that leaves me as a developer.

(If you don't want to read a semi-long post, feel free to skip.) I think I reached a turning point yesterday. I needed to add a basic feature to a Django site.

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

If you were starting your first Node.js backend project in 2026, what AI-assisted workflow would you choose?

I'm starting my first serious full-stack project using Node.js + Express + PostgreSQL + Prisma (React frontend). I already have 2+ years of React experience, so

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

AI Training course

Hey everyone, how's it going? I need some advice, I work as a software developer for a consulting company, and like pretty much every IT company these days, AI

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Is it just me or does ai get solidjs more right compared to React?

So I'm a react and vue dev, 6 years. vue was my side projects and first client when i was starting out; react has been basically everything since (my career, an

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

How does the web dev industry right now differ from 3 or 4 years ago?

I was a web dev for about 3 years until I left the industry, and this was just at the start of the extreme rapid push of AI. This was when my company originally

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

We are all just testers now

I plan my specs. Claude implement it. 80% of my daily work now is testing Claud's output. submitted by /u/RandomUserName323232 [link] [comments]

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Feeling so lost due to ai

I graduated last year. Since then, I've been unemployed. Partly because I had to deal with a plethora of health issues, then, I stopped applying because I just

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Replicate a WordPress site 1:1 into an AI-first codebase with Claude Code. Is this possible today?

I have an existing WordPress website that I'd like to replicate as close to 1:1 as possible into a modern codebase using Claude Design / Claude Code. My goal is

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

[Showoff Saturday] I built an app that converts any text into high-quality audio. It works with PDFs, blog posts, Substack and Medium links, and even photos of text.

I’m excited to share a project I’ve been working on over the past few months! It’s a mobile app that turns any text into high-quality audio. Whether it’s a webp

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

[Showoff Saturday] Built an AI-powered Tarot/astrology app but got stuck with payments because of the "esoteric" category

Hi, I want to share a breakdown of how I built my AI-powered Tarot/astrology app and the ridiculous problems I got when trying to launch it. When I started, I r

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

How do you challenge yourself in the age of AI?

I don't get as much dopamine out of programming anymore because of AI, but at the same time, it's hard to avoid using it because it's too convenient. I miss the

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

[Showoff Saturday] I built an app that converts any text into high-quality audio. It works with PDFs, blog posts, Substack and Medium links, and even photos of text.

I’m excited to share a project I’ve been working on over the past few months! It’s a mobile app that turns any text into high-quality audio. Whether it’s a webp

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Headroom – free macOS menu bar app showing Claude Code session (5h) and weekly (7d) usage limits as a live %

If you use Claude Code for web development — refactoring a React codebase, generating TypeScript types, working through a large PR — you've probably been hit mi

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

How do you maintain project context when you hit limits and have to switch AI tools?

One of the most frustrating parts of using AI coding tools is what happens when you have to switch between them. Every time I move to a different tool, I end up

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

For new project development, where do you draw the line between "vibe-coding" and "directing an AI with knowledge and competence"?

I think it's fair to say that someone who has never done non-AI web development will always be vibe-coding. For, say, an experienced (20+ years) developer, woul

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

GitHub Copilot seems to have become much more expensive and limited - have you switched to something else?

I use GitHub CoPilot in VS Code in my small webdev business, and today I just found out that I burned through my usage quota in two working days, using it the s

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

The Mandala Studio

Code: https://github.com/anishshobithps/themandalastudio It's a fun project for timepass, feedback appreciated. submitted by /u/anish_shobith_19 [link] [commen

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

I built a browser-local handwriting-to-OTF font generator with no AI, no OCR, and no server upload

<img src="https://external-preview.redd.it/kwAW6SlHtznqYN1K1vXo8dqvPlzhefpLrectVTuwWkM.jpeg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=50a5ca3334c47fa330098f9

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

CMU research study on spec-driven development — looking for open-source devs to interview (45-60 min, Zoom)

Hey everyone, I'm a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University conducting a research study on how developers are actually using spec-driven development (SDD) in p

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Thoughts on the "pay to play" future of coding

As a Github Copilot customer the stark reality of the true cost of agentic work is sinking in. As a solo developer generally working on small sites I feel like

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

What does full-stack web development even mean with AI around these days?

So, what does full-stack web development even mean with AI around these days? I mean, if I say I'm a full-stack web developer, I should probably be handling the

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

My ideal coding assistant doesn't wait for me to ask. It already knows what code I'm looking at.

When I'm reading someone else's code, a new codebase, a library I haven't used, something I inherited, I have a lot of moments where I think "what does this act

Reddit r/webdev 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

If the AI could already see your screen while you were coding, which problems would you actually ask about that you currently don't?

I've been thinking about a specific version of AI-assisted debugging. Not asking which tool is smarter, but asking about the behavior change that would come fro