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/the33rdegree Nov 26 '23

AND they are not afraid of their IP stolen by Google???

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u/Kyrthis Nov 26 '23

Don’t you mean microsoft

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u/Headpuncher Nov 27 '23

i think they meant that without gpt or copilot i would be googleing the problems and possibly pasting code into search

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u/Kyrthis Nov 27 '23

People really paste code into search? How do they expect good results?