Software development topics I've changed my mind on

>Frontend development is a nightmare world of Kafkaesque awfulness I no longer enjoy

As a backend/systems engineer I recently had to look at a React + Typescript + MobX app from 2019/2020. It is true that that some things, especially the webpack config and Typescript loading, were outdated but the overall design and architecture of the app was still understandable and modern. With some help from ChatGPT it took very little time to migrate to Vite and update dependencies. By 2019/2020 React Hooks had already been out for some time but there were still some class components in the app. They were easily migrated to functional components + Hooks using ChatGPT.

With ChatGPT I am enjoying Typescript development and learning a lot. Unfortunately with ChatGPT being - in JavaScript terms - decades behind the state of the art. It becomes a little challenging to get it to do what you want. But it gets me 80-90% of the way there 70% of the time. Which is a huge win.