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/HMikeeU]

Autopilot doesn't help the plane fly to it's destination quicker.

[u/Valhallai → u/HMikeeU]

Yikes, neither does ChatGPT unless you are working on trivial stuff.

[u/HMikeeU → u/Valhallai]

Well someone's gotta do the trivial stuff

[u/MoTTs_ → u/HMikeeU]

That’s why when we’re talking about what can an AI do, it’s better to talk in specifics rather than generalities. For example, can I tell an AI:

Here’s a link to build setup. For box X on page Y, change the rounded corners from 4px to 5px, and submit a PR.

And if an AI can’t do that, then what trivial task, specifically, do we think an AI can handle?

[u/ewic → u/MoTTs_]

If I could tell an AI to move an element 5 pixels to the right without messing up the surrounding components I would become a believer

[u/dogweather → u/ewic]

And it must create maintainable code. That adds a whole new level of difficulty.