r/webdev • • 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/square-beast Nov 26 '23

Yes, AI will decrease the demand for humans to perform a task.

But I think it is still going to take some time before that happens. It will be a slow process, but it will be inevitable.

For now, we only see AI as an assistant. But the roles will swap, and we will be an AI assistant.