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/Evening_Meringue8414 Nov 26 '23 edited Nov 26 '23

I have sometimes wondered whether advancements will be made where the designers, product managers and testers will remain and the in between will be an AI that can generate many iterations that take in the story description from the product owner and the designs from the designer and generates iterations that go up against the QA tests until something passes. I sure hope this isn’t how it’ll go 1. it’s depressing, 2. it leaves the coding somewhat obfuscated and 3. it puts me out of a job.