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/rio_sk]

Do anyone who post such a question actually tried to create something with AI generated code? Maybe one day AI will be able to create a software but that moment is still quite far away. AI is good at writing short functions right now and half of the time those need some rewriting to work correctly. Even setting up a basic project in whatever language you choose is a task that most of the time cannot be done with AI. Not yet at last.