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/mq2thez Nov 26 '23

Don’t be the kind of developer whose work can be replaced by something as simple as what ChatGPT can produce.

It can definitely help make some things go faster, but it’s not replacing engineers. Whoever told you that ChatGPT can replace two whole engineers on a team is an idiot or hires idiots.