r/webdev • u/Proud-Confidence7290 • Nov 26 '23

Question Will AI decrease demand and salaries?

Hello everyone.

I am new to web development and it goes well so far.

I'm bit scared of AI development. Let's say you needed 10 developers for a project before ChatGPT and now you need 8.

With the development of AI, we will need even less.

Why do people think AI won't decrease demand and salaries of web developers? It's logic for me, what am I missing?

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u/torn-ainbow Nov 26 '23

People are obsessed with the idea that developers will be obsolete due to advances in AI.

Meanwhile, there's a heck of a lot of jobs which are going to be threatened by AI well before it can replace whole developers.

Project managers, accountants, writers, engineers, lawyers, teachers, customer service, HR are all under threat. And that's just white collar. Driving is being solved right now. Developers are not special or unique in being threatened by AI.