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Frontend developer — how we know
The page itself gives the judgements. This one gives what they rest on: which technologies bear on the work, how the estimate moved since language models reached the public, and the method behind both.
Which technologies matter here#
Four separate signals. They are deliberately not added together — a job exposed to two technologies is not twice as exposed.
How it got here#
The index is not a static number. This is where it would have sat at each capability checkpoint since ChatGPT — reconstructed, and labelled as such.
—— this stretch contains a verified event- - - no event in this stretch — reconstruction only0 = no task exposed, 100 = every task exposed
● 2 verified events for this occupation, plotted at the date it happened — the parts of the line near a marker are anchored to something checkable.
The steepest software curve on this site, and the mechanism is specific rather than a judgement that the work is easy: the most visible task here takes a picture as input and produces text as output, correctness is checkable by looking, and the training data is the public web. The 2024 jump is generation reaching the point where a whole screen arrives at once rather than a component. It flattens at a high level because what is left does not have that shape — the states nobody drew, the devices nobody tested on, and an accessibility requirement that is becoming a legal obligation rather than a practice. Read the height as exposure on the visible half of the job, not as a measurement of the job.
A flat line is not a forecast of safety. It says which tasks automation has reached so far — the occupations that moved least here are the ones where the constraint is physical or regulatory, and both of those can change.
Written about this#
These pieces argue from the same records this page holds, and each of their sections names what it rests on.
Method and sources#
- Assessment date
- 2026-09-12
- Basis of the task judgements
- 2 evidence-backed · 4 platform inference · 0 not enough evidence
- Verified events
- 2