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Yes an intelligent JavaScript developer. Who could imagine.

I would wager the front end developer will continue to be a high paying job longer than the backend developer. You can outsource API creation but any product company can't risk not having a UX friendly and well designed front end.

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The last 3 jobs I've had is to rearchitect a badly written non scaleable, brittle system, with no unit tests to one that was better architected with automated testing. They tried to get away with cheap (domestic) coders and people who were at the company for 20 years.

Design != Implementation. Outsourcing the code-monkey work of converting a complete design into a pile of JS is easy and already being done.

Sure, if you're looking for a 'pile of JS' at the end of it.

Yes. All this doom and gloom is confusing to me.

If a job is as easy to outsource as so many on here are saying, it is already being done or has been done.

It's been done in my industry. The low level grunt work and basic administration is all outsourced. Has been for decades.

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