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/walkpangea Nov 26 '23
As I said to my PM when he asked me about ChatGPT - It's fancy googling. I love it, but the idea that it has a massive increase in productivity outside of the absolute most basic things that I can do in my sleep, or even replace me for the things I do today, is total baloney.
Maybe in the future things will change, but people are overestimating the power of content based AI.