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/ewic Nov 26 '23

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

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u/dogweather Nov 27 '23

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