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I wonder if ChatGPT has resulted in less demand for basic web dev services.

It has not. It’s way to early to see any market affects from chat gpt.

Not sure about web dev but many of the applications I received from freelancers this time around had obvious signs of ChatGPT use in them.

What are obvious signs?

The perfect royal queen english with too much useless fluff

And it's a bummer for those of us who do actually speak or write in royal queen english.

Is King now, yea?

GitHub copilot was first released 2 years ago

ChatGPT != GitHub copilot.

Also I don't think copilot has reduced the demand for dev services.

I'm not saying it reduced the demand, I'm saying it increased the supply.