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# The End of Front-End Development

**[Josh W Comeau](https://daily.dev/sources/joshwcomeau)** · 11 min read · 936 upvotes · 103 comments

## Summary

GPT-4 can take a hand-drawn sketch of a website, and turn it into a fully-functional website, including a bit of JS to wire up the “Reveal Punchline” button. This is remarkable, and I think it has a lot of potential when it comes to prototyping.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@mmouradev** · 49 upvotes

> OMG I was about to look for a "Downvote" button with this title but reading the blog post I agreed 100%. Nice clickbait, lol

**@dedios** · 25 upvotes

> Backend devs want the end of front end so bad 🤣

**@nospecgamer181** · 10 upvotes

> Nice clickbait, amazing ending " the sun might explode tomorrow"  lol

**@dalvarado** · 9 upvotes

> Thank you for sharing, GPT is great but sometimes there are intended and unintended outcomes.

**@uraniumking007** · 7 upvotes

> Somewhere i agree with author that developer are not going anywhere

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