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?

1 Upvotes

50% Upvoted

172 comments sorted by

View all comments

274

u/thedeuceisloose Nov 26 '23

As someone working in LLMs and webdev, youre believing the hype more than what it can actually do

27

u/YoyoyoyoMrWhite Nov 26 '23

Don't ignore the speed it's improving at. 5 years ago, it couldn't do anything.

1

u/Blazing1 Nov 28 '23

This is not true. I was hyped ten years ago

Chatgpt is just hyped because no one had the compute and GPU power to run something like that at the scale it is

Technically OpenAI doesn't either because they are losing money like crazy.