I think it’s easier to manage full-stack development as a solo developer now even without AI.

Now TypeScript catches a lot of my mistakes before they reach runtime.

Now I have good enough browser automation testing tools to catch regressions in the frontend.

Now it’s quick and easy to run a specific database version for each app I’m working on with docker.

Now I can automate deployment to the cloud instead of having to rely on an entire IT department.

Now I have a scalable way to publish and consume reusable units of code as npm packages.

None of this was the case in what this author seems to think were the good old days. If web development seemed easy to him back then, I doubt he was working on complex projects