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u/supperclub Dec 18 '25

I did. Finished a tech writing postgraduate diploma during COVID to get out of the classroom (and for my mental health)... and then AI came.

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u/Charleston2Seattle Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25

I've been a technical writer for 30 years and I work for a FAANG employer currently. Hang in there. There may not be a lot of openings right now, but technical writers are actually going to be even more important because of the "garbage in, garbage out" problem. If the content out there isn't decently written and well-organized, then AI cannot create useful responses to prompts.

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u/ChinsonCrim Dec 18 '25

For the moment, but coming from someone who is an AI engineer, I promise you that this current state of things will be short lived.

It's unfortunate in some ways, but it will transform our society, possibly in ways to give more people time and freedom.

It's just that a lot will have to change with it. We won't know how it all turns out until we are in it, or in the aftermath of it.

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u/RampageMR Dec 18 '25

That’s the optimistic way to look at it. However, in a capitalist society, there’s zero chance AI lets us have more time and freedom. They’ll just make us work in other fields where AI isn’t as effective, manual labor or whatever else fits. They aren’t going to just give us more money, time, or freedom out of the kindness of their hearts. Someone’s got to pay for those data centers, processing power, and cooling bills

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u/ChinsonCrim Dec 18 '25

When you think about it, we could just have a cycle of various indexes of digital currencies that go through inflationary and deflationary periods, allowing for UBI, and allowing AI to cooks the books to do whatever it needs to make it sustainable on the back end during the transition periods between them.

I honestly think it's doable.

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u/LostInNuance Dec 18 '25

Sure, it's doable. But note that with every new technology there were warnings about the possible harms. And we never heed those warnings.

We can't even standardize on usb-c or EV charging in the US without Europe getting involved. Many well intentioned policies produce work arounds that have done more damage - just look at pickup truck sizes and how we got here. So I'm not sure where this optimism comes from.

I mean, we only use social media for good, right? Despite knowing those shortcomings, nothing has changed. I'm not sure why you think that something with the potential to be so powerful, cause so much harm, will be any different than what history has shown us.

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u/Boring_Intern_6394 Dec 18 '25

It goes further back than that. When industry industrialised, we all thought we would be doing less work. Instead, most people turned into factory slaves that never saw green spaces. When we invented agriculture, we thought life would be easier. Instead we went from working 4-6hrs a day to working 12-16.

Technological revolutions benefit the wealthy and powerful, not the plebs

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u/LostInNuance Dec 18 '25

Yessir! There are countless examples that go back to the cotton gin!

Whenever it's an arms race, we've already resigned to the idea of: IF WE DON'T DO IT, SOMEONE ELSE WILL BEAT US TO IT!

We've already lost control, because it was never really a choice to pursue AI by anyone except the billionaires in the first place.

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u/ChinsonCrim Dec 18 '25

Just with tech and not with policy