Portfolio Websites Are Dead.

The portfolio website, that proud, painstaking monument to one's professional self, is practically dead after the language models learned to generate one in seconds. Not a rough draft. A finished product. With animations. And a contact form. And a testimonials section from clients that don't exist yet, written in a voice indistinguishable from the human who spent the weekend building the real one.

What remains are hero sections that no one scrolls, project thumbnails no one clicks, and "About Me" paragraphs that begin with the words "I'm a passionate developer."

The machine is also passionate. It will tell you so. It will tell you in twelve languages, at four in the morning, without needing a break.

The profession the portfolio was built to impress began vanishing alongside it. Recruiters replaced by pipelines. Hiring decisions delegated to algorithms, without ever loading a page. You’re standing alone, applauding what you never built, on an empty stage with no audience.

Nobody is on the other end.

What survives is only what was always true: the actual work, and the professional theater we have all agreed to keep performing, for reasons nobody has articulated convincingly. That seems to be the whole picture. For now...