Will AI decrease demand and salaries?

[u/Proud-Confidence7290]

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?

[u/[deleted]]

This is the completely wrong sub to ask this question and that’s proven by the replies already.

A lot of the analogies make no sense at all trying to compare AI to something physical or that has health and safety laws like flying a plane.

Everyone will be biased for their own sake, a lot will be very short sighted and not be thinking 5-10 years from now.

It will absolutely reduce salaries in some aspect because you can pay for less experience people who use AI as their main tool. But that won’t happen for years.

I already use it a lot for work and if my boss knew he could think “okay I’ll just pay you part time for the same amount of work or I’ll give you double the work” both are credible.

But I wouldn’t be scared of it at the moment, you’ve gotta get that experience and knowledge to spot when AI isn’t great and be able to put all the pieces together.

Also something people keep forgetting is that a human touch is critical, if your website goes down do you think the PM can just shout at the AI to ask why? No, they’ll want a human to talk to. It’s the same reason why online only house buying sites don’t work well (eg Purple Bricks) because people want a human to talk to.

(Edit, just to prove my point why this sub is crap for AI or real life web dev talk, half of my comment says AI is great and other half states why AI won't always work, but the downvotes will come because people don't understand or are inexperienced in the real world).

[u/Ariakkas10 → u/[deleted]]

It will absolutely reduce salaries in some aspect because you can pay for less experience people who use AI as their main tool. But that won’t happen for years.

This is already happening. I’m punching way above my weight at my current job with AI tools. I’ll bet you a lot of people are.

The only thing we need for this to accelerate is for people to coalesce around this idea. Juniors to sell it and companies to buy it

[u/[deleted] → u/Ariakkas10]

This is already happening. I’m punching way above my weight at my current job with AI tools. I’ll bet you a lot of people are.

Exactly, same here, tbh same with everyone at my workplace. They have all learned things and been able to do things that wouldn't have been in the cards for them a year ago or would have taken them a lot longer.

The confidence and knowledge boost is insane, but within this industry you don't get pay rises without job hoppin.