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/NotGoodSoftwareMaker Nov 26 '23

Depends if you believe that the market is saturated with devs or not.

If yes then AI will cause layoffs and lower salaries because the ability to supply dev work increases.

If no then it will have no impact or cause salaries to increase as the ability to supply dev work has opened new niches