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/neosatan_pl Nov 26 '23

Funny enough, I have a feeling that it will increase salaries in specific fields. Mostly I am looking at medical, engineering, and automation. But for run of a mill webdev, maybe. It depends on emerging tools and market approach. However, I wouldn't expect a big change in next 5-10 years as there are already people with contracts working on legacy codebase. A shift to AI-based coding would be long and problematic even if there would be a AI that could comprehend human-written code on a system-level.