I don't think AI will kill software engineering anytime soon, though I wonder if claws will largely kill the need for frontend specialists.

To clarify, you mean that we're entering a post-HTML world, correct? As in, why spend effort on the aesthetics if a human will never see it, correct?

Because that is also my worry; a post-HTML and perhaps even a POST-API world....

The LLM paradigm will never lead to AGI and to attach something other than AGI to all of your personal data and files — and setting it free whilst you sleep — is about as dumb as anything I can imagine.

The frontend will remain a requirement because you cannot trust LLMs to not hallucinate. Literally cannot. The "Claw" phenomenon is essentially a marketing craze for a headless AI browser that has filesystem access. I don't even trust my current browser with filesystem access. I don't trust the AI browsers when I can see what they're doing because they click faster than I can process what they're doing. If they're stopping to ask my permission, what's the point?

Mark my words, this will be an absolute disaster for every single person who connects these things to anything of meaning eventually.

And will there be a corresponding specialty that optimizes your "website" for claws to navigate. (Beyond just providing API access)