Is AI causing a repeat of Frontend’s Lost Decade?

What AI is doing to the jobs of programmers feels very familiar to a lot of us frontend developers – because it has happened to us before. Let’s first look at the transformation of the frontend and agentic coding through the lens of deskilling , and then look at both changes through the lens of a higher level of abstraction . Finally, we’ll look at previous changes, like the advent of copy-pasta…