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/XhoniShollaj Nov 26 '23

Not yet - but in the very near future (~2-3 years) a lot of front-end, QA etc. can be mostly automated (think about 90% of tasks). Meaning that 1 dev will be required to do much more work than currently given the automation expectations - as such less numbers of overall devs will be required and less positions will be available.