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/SirLoremIpsum Nov 27 '23

I'm bit scared of AI development. Let's say you needed 10 developers for a project before ChatGPT and now you need 8.

Only if you think the amount of 'stuff' getting done remains constant. I think it far more likely that instead of 10 to 8, it will be 10 producing X to 10 producing 2X

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u/ZideGO Nov 29 '23

Yeah, that’s right. For sure, good company won’t fire its developers “cuz it can do the same just with AI”, the company will encourage its developers for doing their job like 2x faster