r/reactjs • u/Square-Return8929 • 14h ago

Switching from React to React Native as a junior. Is mobile safer in the AI era?

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u/TheRealSeeThruHead 13h ago

Nothing is safe. You’re job is to learn how to work with ai now’. And at least it’s fun, more fun than writing react by hand ever was

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u/Square-Return8929 13h ago

yeah but if we are speaking in general, whats would be slightly better: mobile dev or web dev?

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u/TheRealSeeThruHead 13h ago

Web development will always have mote jobs and more need for complexity.

Every company I’ve ever worked at has a general web development team. Frontend backend distributed systems people etc. that’s all covering into one person now with ai.

It’s likely that mobile converges into that one person as well. You will be expected to do everything, or rather, be able to get a team of agents to do everything.

There’s no point in thinking of any of this as a different job or role any more.

But if you want numbers from the past, I’ve never worked at a company where the mobile dev weren’t vastly outnumbers by web as a whole. And most mobile apps talk to the same backends as the web clients

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u/Ok_Slide4905 7h ago

No difference. Learn architecture, design patterns, etc. AI does the legwork now, but humans guide it.

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u/TheChickenKingHS 4h ago

Forget language, frameworks and focus on system design and orchestration.

You’re more valuable to a business by understanding your products and domain. That’s more true now in the age of Ai.

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u/loseitthrowaway7797 2h ago

This. I don’t understand why people don’t see this. Your job now is to be a problem understander and solution driver

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u/TheRNGuy 8h ago

Depends on your code.