Let's say it doesn't take much effort to be able to become a web dev. compared to one of their true geniuses that created Gemma which is fucking sick, especially if you have a 4090 or 5090 or Ada card with 24GB+ VRAM.
It's actually almost a genius even on a 4080.
I could create web services with java scripts in Notepad as a kid. Could I create a super sick AI model like Gemma? Hell no!
Also since AI came along, no wonder it was reported that 75% of Google's code was made by AI. Their only code that can't be replaced by their Gemma model is basically just their AI models and the backend infrastructure.
Rest of their services are web code, Android is just a Java VM with a Linux bootloader that Gemma can code as good as it possibly gets.
Trust me when I say that you'll see massive layoffs from Google real soon.
They have the infrastructure to run a model of Gemma that is smarter than anyone of their employees except for a few key people like the AI model team and infrastructure team that handle the backend and network loads that are so insane they had to make a special bypass of the Linux kernel because it's too slow to handle the communication between the server NIC and CPU.
Google just needs to keep maybe 10k out of their 80k devs. All they need is ideas for future services and products and Gemma will handle almost all of the rest.
Web dev in a year maybe already, but certainly no later than 2030 and onward will "just" be about designing UI's that are easy to use and look good, zero lines of code will be done by humans. And how much has the UI changed in Gmail, Google Docs and so on over 2 decades? Basically nothing so it's not like they need a massive amount of UX designer's either.
Both Claude Opus 4.7 and Gemini 3.1 Pro can write perfect html, css, java, you name it.
I know, because I've asked both to build different stuff from 0 and it worked great and the code was solid.
Especially Claude is actually insane, doesn't just almost always nail stuff first try, it creates proper documentation of everything and nice read.me and get started guides and tests it's own code on autopilot, you only need to let it free and it will let you watch youtube or what ever instead.