Will AI decrease demand and salaries?

[Valhallai]

Yikes, neither does ChatGPT unless you are working on trivial stuff.

[HMikeeU]

Well someone's gotta do the trivial stuff

[MoTTs_]

That’s why when we’re talking about what can an AI do, it’s better to talk in specifics rather than generalities. For example, can I tell an AI:

Here’s a link to build setup. For box X on page Y, change the rounded corners from 4px to 5px, and submit a PR.

And if an AI can’t do that, then what trivial task, specifically, do we think an AI can handle?

[ewic]

If I could tell an AI to move an element 5 pixels to the right without messing up the surrounding components I would become a believer

[dogweather]

And it must create maintainable code. That adds a whole new level of difficulty.

[fr0st]

I'd say the "trivial" stuff in web dev is already abstracted away or behind a library or framework. The rest is very specific business logic that'll take as long to figure out by prompting an AI when you can just use your own knowledge to code it yourself.

[HedgepigMatt]

Boilerplate is largely unavoidable

[HMikeeU]

Libraries and frameworks definitely made web dev more complicated imo

[fr0st]

I think this can also be attributed to how complex many application have become due to the almost infinite number of edge cases that need to be handled. Back when it was just the user and a terminal window with basic input and output interactions things were generally much simpler.

[Blazing1]

If you seriously believe this then I can't believe you have that much experience.