The AI Skills Frontend Developers Actually Need

And then of course, you need to add AI skills to your skill set. Now, again, you'll never be asked to build a model yourself. So there's people that I see there like, oh, I should learn Python and I should be able to build a large language model. That's not the case. But you should know the basics of context engineering, how to set up an MCP, how to define agent skills. A lot of companies are most companies actually are defining their own agent skills and they want you to be able to maintain it.

And also how to do a decent harness design. And harness design is basically building software around the model to make the model more reliable, to make the output more deterministic. And there's different ways to do that, I'm not going to get deep into it. But this will allow you to market yourself into this market. A lot of people are still marketing themselves like it's 2020, and it doesn't work, and then they go ahead and they say the market is cooked.

It's not cooked, but it definitely changed.