Will AI decrease demand and salaries?

[u/Proud-Confidence7290]

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?

[u/Complete-Ad6039]

AI will both delete and create jobs. What seems likely now, is subject to rapid and unpredictable changes. Conditions and landscape will be far less set in stone and predictable.

What's likely is that AI itself will play a huge role in the market of matching jobs with employers. Finding a job will be a matter of AI agents.

AI isn't technology. It's meta-technology. It's the first technology that evolves from being a passive tool, to being an active user of itself.

I believe learning ability will continue to be key and will keep going through phases of re-definition after re-definition. What was valuable pre and after AI,is different.

However, my opinion is that it will be, more and more, all about adaptation. Adapt. Be quick, ready, hang onto nothing. Ready to adapt and shift in whatever ways the situation demands.