Another year's over. You know what that means! Time for a look back. MY look back in this case.
And it's been quite a year. In good and bad ways.
MCP has been all the hype for the last 1.5 years. Kind of, at least.
But you can safely ignore it as a developer. Agent Skills are the way better alternative.
Coursera buys Udemy. Or they merge - depending on how you look at it.
Either way, I have some initial thoughts about it.
We had multiple React-related severe security vulnerabilities within a few weeks. Did React get too complex? Is the client-server complexity eating into security?
Remember 2016-2022? The golden era of coding tutorials? They still exist today! But they changed. And they're getting less views. Let's talk about it.
AI is not just a great assistant or for "vibe coding". It's also amazing if you know stuff but not everything.
Gemini 3 is clearly optimized for a very specific task. And it's not really related to your job as a frontend developer.
Let another hype cycle begin - Google Gemini 3 is here! And it may be amazing - if we can trust benchmarks.
There's a disturbing "trend" (kind of): Some APIs are locking up or charging (quite a bit of) money for usage. X (Twitter) is one example. Reddit is another recent one.
And they won't be the last ones to do that.
Gen AI is helping cyber criminals become more efficient. And we're only at the beginning.