Backend engineers are in trouble. With claude 4, any frontend engineer can simply code a backend. Goodbye backend engineers, hello frontend engineers.
This dumb argument literally goes both ways and as a fullstack oriented engineer, it's actually easier in most cases to do BE..
There was a period of time where you could make $200-400k by just knowing how to code front-ends
That period lasted from 2015-2024 and is now over, since Claude 4 etc is good enough for any product designer who codes or back-end engineer to take over 99% of the work, leaving the front-end engineer jobless unless they adapt–by taking someone else’s job(s)