Laid off backend dev, because the market is in tatters

From most companies I hear about, the two common camps are.

Frontend devs fucking loving AI agents to code and do as much as possible. Because if something breaks, yeah we’ll ship something new and the few missed interactions didn’t truly matter.

Backend devs do not trust AI agents to the same magnitude, they’re fine outsourcing non critical parts which rarely are prioritised. Such as tests and documentation, both of which LLM based tools excel at. But having LLMs generate all the code, which if anything breaks within. Welp, fuck. Did we just ship 10.000 orders at half price? That’s an issue.

Well we’ve already seen a lot of companies not understanding development disciplines before the LLM craze, having client side developers make server side code because it’s nodeJS they know JS. Well language is secondary, and you’ll figure that out when incredibly simple bugs are shipped to the server side code.

I think there’s at least one more year of runway, before we’re seeing any greater understanding from C-suites in general. For why a developer isn’t just a developer, why some are specialised in servers and some in clients. Because those disciplines are miles apart.

Honestly it seems like they more or less identified all of the former unidentified users, and it turns out the vast vast majority of which are on unix based systems.

If this goes right down again, I’d imagine the unidentified users to go up - But would be a decent indication for a lot of traffic being scrapers

Sounds like they figured out most of the previously unspecified traffic, comes from Linux based systems.

But you’re right about an unknown amount of that traffic is from servers.