At the Microsoft Build 2023 conference held in May, the tech giant announced Microsoft 365 Copilot and coined the phrase “everyone is a developer now”. Copilot was built on the hype of ChatGPT and large language models, so, after ChatGPT, even a layman has legit become a developer.
And when everyone turns into a developer, the developer turns into a full-stack developer! That’s how the chatbot has transformed the app/website building ecosystem. Despite the hype around the “everyone’s a developer now” idea, there’s little data to back it up. But the opportunities that the GPT-4-powered chatbot has created for developers can be ostensibly measured.
In the website building world, the role has always been divided between backend and frontend developers, who needed specialised training to do each of these jobs. Now, ChatGPT has blurred the line between the two. Developers are now upskilled with “promptgramming”, who can single-handedly build the backend and frontend.
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