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Dom Sipowicz
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Top 11 AI Predictions for Web Development in 2025

1. "GenAI Experience Required"


Recruiters will soon demand candidates with "4 years of v0 experience" (even though it’s only been out for 2 years). Bonus points if you can telepathically pair program with Copilot.

2. Docs Are the New Code

Finally, devs will stop treating documentation like an optional side quest. Why? Because at least the AIs will read it. Frameworks and libraries will release shiny "AI-ready context packages," while devs mutter, “We’re literally writing for robots now.”

3. AI Gets Its Own Viewport

Forget desktop, tablet, and mobile—2025 will introduce AI-agent-friendly view. Think SSR for AI assistants who browse your site like it’s the Matrix. Expect “AI viewports” in your next @media query nightmare.

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4. Goodbye Unique Design, Hello Pragmatism

Graphic design? Overrated. Companies will prioritize functionality, simplicity, and shipping faster over “but does it pop?” Tools like v0 will be your starting point for building UIs. The new mantra: “If it works and ships, it’s beautiful.”

5. AI-Commerce Takeover

2025 will be the year of AI-commerce. Backend tasks like answering reviews, FAQs, and support tickets? Automated. Frontend? AI-driven personalization using creepy-good LLM sorting. Your shopping cart will know what you want before you do. Resistance is futile.

6. AI Cookies, But Smarter (and Creepier)


Browsers will roll out native support for "AI context sharing" plugins. These little wonders will feed your browsing habits to AI assistants page-by-page. It’s like cookies... but if cookies could analyze your soul. What could possibly go wrong?

7. AI Crawlers: The New Kings of Traffic


Search crawlers will get dethroned by AI bots in the traffic race. Forget SEO; your new overlords are LLM-optimized content aggregators. Prepare for hot takes like “AI First Indexing” in your next dev meeting.

8. Buy vs. Build Is Dead - It’s Just Build

Companies will ditch SaaS like yesterday’s Docker container. Why? Building custom solutions will be faster, cheaper, and just plain cooler when your AI does half the work. Hello, a thousand tiny in-house web projects. Goodbye, sanity.

9. Death of Offshoring?


AI will make internal dev teams 10x faster and more efficient, leading companies to favor in-house hires over agencies. Agencies, meanwhile, will pivot to “AI consultancy,” aka charging you to do what you could’ve Googled.

10. Everyone's a Creator

Your PM will prototype a feature using v0 and call it "a small tweak." AI tools will empower everyone to create POCs and mockups. Devs will rejoice—“finally, requirements that make sense!”—until they see the Frankenstein creations they're expected to ship.

11. Runtime AI Inference Becomes Standard


Browser-baked LLMs, BYOK (Bring Your Own Key), or server-side inference—AI at runtime will finally be normal. Your website might run slower than a Java app on a 2008 netbook, but hey, at least it’s intelligent.

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