Raw LLM Responses

Oh boy, as someone who started making web pages as a kid, the job description of "guy who makes web sites" has changed so much over time. We went from "web master" to "web developer" to "front end developer" to "front end engineer," and in every step the scope and complexity of work has increased dramatically. When I started it wasn't even really programming ("making sites look pretty" as one manager told me), and my CS education--which I associated with traditional OOP like C++ and Java--felt very removed from the work of web development. But now if you want to work in and actually understand React or Angular, all the stuff I did in CS is now actually relevant. Front-end is at last getting some respect, but it does mean the 17 year old with only HTML/CSS skills--which was me once upon a time--can't automatically get a job anymore either. However if anyone asks me what I do who isn't in the field, I still say "computer programmer" or, if asked to elaborate, "I make web pages." The title "software engineer" has never sat that well with me. Maybe I'm selling myself too short, I don't know, but I feel like those terms are the best explanation of what I do.