{"slug": "ask-hn-how-are-front-end-friends-doing-these-days", "title": "Ask HN: How are front end friends doing these days?", "summary": "A Hacker News user reports that their company laid off a group of employees, with most from R&D and among R&D, most were front-end developers, prompting a discussion about the impact of AI tools on front-end jobs.", "body_md": "With the popularity of AI tools, how are front-end folks doing?\n\nBG: My company recently laid off a group of people, most of them from R&D, and among R&D, most were front-end.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356122](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356122)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 1", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-are-front-end-friends-doing-these-days", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356122", "published_at": "2026-08-19 03:03:33+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-19 03:11:41.614733+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-are-front-end-friends-doing-these-days", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-are-front-end-friends-doing-these-days.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-are-front-end-friends-doing-these-days.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-are-front-end-friends-doing-these-days.jsonld"}}