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/[deleted] Nov 26 '23

I wouldn't worry until they build a AI toolset that allows you to write code by giving it a text input and a test then make it iterate over the test until it comes up with something good.

But you'd still need developers or "prompt engineers" to actually use it and know what it writes. Sometimes a developer might even be faster because they know a codebase better.

When we have full AI codebases and all you do is prompt that's when I'll start worrying and pivot into some other type of development.