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/xtopspeed Nov 26 '23

I wouldn't put my money on that. ChatGPT is the culmination of more than 50 years of research and development. People like Sam Altman prefer to talk as if there had been a number of huge new advances recently, yet there has only been one (the language transformer). Otherwise, it is based on recurrent neural network technology, which is not much different from where it was 30 years ago. It is the first time someone has thrown a billion dollars worth of hardware, etc. at it, though.

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u/poemehardbebe Nov 27 '23

I think this is a fair take, with the exception of I don’t think that hardware has ever been better $/flop. Ml takes a lot of Just raw power to do In anything that requires even a little bit of scale. I don’t think it would have been feasible even 10 years ago for ml to be anything but a play thing because of that.