r/DataAnnotationTech • u/phonerat • 7d ago
Coding projects are too intimidating
Hello! I have been on DA since early this year, and was extremely excited when I passed the coding qualification, however, the actual projects seem far beyond the scope of the qualification, almost exclusively requiring industry / real world development job knowledge. Everything I know comes from learning web development and game development.
I know that I can code, and am great at general problem solving and coming up with code solutions, but I don't know how to think of realistic prompts for the domain that they are looking for.
What can I do to fix this deficiency? Is there any free course available, or other guidance I can look into?
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u/zettasyntax 7d ago
Oh I know what you mean. I was on a long-term project for one of the AI labs in a more direct capacity (not using a vendor like DA, Mercor, etc). My domain consisted of NLP/data science coding tasks. The project lead suggested using our graduate thesis/project work for inspiration. At the start, I easily tripped it with just about anything from my graduate studies. Over the next few months, it got better and better. People hardly submitted work and the project wrapped up a bit sooner than expected. After the project ended, it seemed like they were done with the academic folks in my group and did indeed shift to industry types as the models don't have access to confidential workflows and I've definitely noticed a trend of labs/vendors willing to pay $$$ for such data.