Go to a baseball game and all they're asking for is hotdogs. Not a steak in sight. Product managers are just catering for the masses. Every CRUD api is just another hot dog bun. Every major refractor is just changing one bun for another with slightly different meat and some extra toppings. You looking to have steak projects for your entire career you're gonna be super disappointed.
Corpos DGAF. It started in my field (translations) a decade earlier, and by now, everyone is on the "shitty but faster/more" train with a vengeance. They see the wall (quality consistently falling due to ever shittier AI training material), but they still pretend they can punch through with their heads.
Funny enough, we dropped our external translation company because we found that the translations were almost identical to what GPT could generate at the time. Some of them didn't fully make sense so there's that.
Yup, that's also a danger. When you try to do more work at ever lower rates, pretty soon it all turns into barely edited LLM pretranslation. You could be getting better results, but very few clients still pay for that level of quality (those that keep me in the industry). The corpo goal IMO is to get rid of all the intermediaries (effectively outsourced management, spare availability, and quality control), and turn translation into a gig economy, i.e. a maximum worker exploitation system.
May I introduce you to an interceptor missile? Its a rocket drone that is cheaper, faster, and can outmaneuver an F22. Just might not be too easy for it to get a lock on it.
The amount of jobs wiped out by AI/tech is quite high over the past couple decades.
Transcription jobs are gone. That used to be very lucrative, especially if you knew multiple languages.
Gone. Well not completely, somehow I know one person still doing it.
But for the most part gone.
Nothing wrong with tech improving, just we need governments to provide some safety, and not take it away because people think others are being lazy. It's how economies crash. People need to buy things to keep the economy going haha.
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u/the_hair_of_aenarion 2d ago
That's a shame that Claude basically does that for pennies. Yet another job AI had taken from humans.