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/Headpuncher Nov 26 '23

  1. already seen employers ban use of chatGPT / copilot because they are afraid their IP will be "stolen" by it. Legal are dealing with it as we write this.

  2. I've been using copilot anyway and it saves me a lot of boilerplate and typing, but it hasn't been error free, and I need to be quite specific in what i want from it. So, you need webdev knowledge to get anything out of it.

If employers had any brains, they would increase budgets to leverage faster development overall, Fire the soft skills waste-of-space roles who comprise 60% of a project's workforce and automate that.

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u/jkpetrov Nov 26 '23

Lol soft skills roles talk to the clients. Good luck getting that invoice paid.

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u/errrzarrr Nov 26 '23

Do they? where I work at they started using Scrum and hired a lot of them because their "soft skills" and client connection.

They don't talk to clients too much or bring devs actual useful information of clients needs and when they do they can't communicate it properly.

The client doesn't feel treated any better, work culture and environment haven't improved a single bit

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u/jkpetrov Nov 26 '23

If that's the case, they deserve to be fired. Still the devs will not get the invoice paid, so new soft skills people need to be hired.