The process of designing and developing websites has been changing for some time, yet it’s currently experiencing a more significant modification. Websites like Wix and Squarespace have the potential to eliminate the need for individual web developers as resources have already been made accessible to users without any programming or design knowledge. The templates are unlimited with differentiating designs and complexity. There is an ongoing shift to the use of these resources as it simplifies the entire process and takes away the necessity of hiring a developer or web designer (Rakova et al., 2021). 

A current change being implemented is the increasing use of AI in the design and development of these web resources. Artificial intelligence can now write code for you, design websites based on prompts and preferences as well as provide code based on wireframes (Moradi Dakhel et al., 2023). It’s unlikely the direction of development is changing any time soon and therefore requires the need to adapt. AI is being implemented in an increasing amount of applications and used to simplify and remove the need for human workforce in repetitive tasks (Hemmer et al., 2023). Developers in the web development community will continue to exist for a while yet, however a change is taking place and one can wonder how the future will look as AI takes on a bigger role in communities and people’s everyday life. 

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Moradi Dakhel, A. et al. (2023) ‘GitHub copilot AI pair programmer: Asset or liability?’, Journal of Systems and Software, 203, p. 111734. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2023.111734.

Rakova, B. et al. (2021) ‘Where responsible AI meets reality’, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 5(CSCW1), pp. 1–23. doi:10.1145/3449081.