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/returnthebook Nov 26 '23 edited Nov 26 '23
Did autopilot made pilots obsolete? Fact: Autopilot is capable of landing the plane all by himself (auto land) and with proper guiding (ILS approach) can stabilize the plane flawlessly.
Autopilot does all the mechanic job a pilot needs to do: he keeps a constant speed, he keeps the altitude, he makes turns to the desired checkpoints, he even saves the plane from a stall scenario (alpha floor). Calculations? A basic first year IT student can write a program that can make those calculations and programmatically input them into MCDU (plane's computer).
Seriously, with just a couple of tweeks, the plane can do the flight all by itself.
Why aren't pilots obsolete? Better yet, why are they so well paid?