A thread on r/webdevelopment asked whether web development is still worth learning in 2026 ( Webdesigner Depot rounded up the replies ). One reply stuck with me. The commenter suggested developers position themselves as an agency that offers "AI Remediation": fixing sites that a founder or a staff member vibe-coded without knowing how to review, host, secure or make them accessible.

The idea is simple. More people can now generate a website in an afternoon. Some of those sites will have broken mobile forms, slow pages, accessibility gaps or security holes, and someone will have to fix them.

I can't decide whether that's a real opportunity or a trap.

Why it might be the job:

There will be a lot of these sites, and most owners won't know what's wrong, only that "it doesn't work on my phone."

Debugging someone else's messy code is a real skill.…