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/andlewis Nov 26 '23

AI doesn’t automate jobs, it automates tasks.

If AI helps with the easy, repetitive tasks, what do you think is left? The difficult non-trivial tasks that require a person to work through it.

That implies you need better devs, which implies they’ll be able to demand more pay since they’re doing tougher tasks.