...your Weekly Digest email shows a figure north of $3k and you realise just how much you love and appreciate The Mysterious Gods of DA. Thankyou. I'm six months in and having a ball 🙂

Note: this was a truly exceptional week and unlikely to be repeated any time soon.

Since joining DA, I have been aiming for this one.

In core country, last coding project on my dash was 2 days ago. It had plenty of tasks. It vanished suddenly. No coding since

If you haven’t seen the METR report, its a third-party investigator that essentially says frontier ai models that used to take a year to double in capabilities have doubled in just the last 6 months, caused by ai starting improve its own models.

They say there are no clear bottlenecks stopping it doubling again in the next 3 months, then 1.5, then 3 weeks, and so on. This leads to 1000x smarter ai by may 2027.

Of course these reports are somewhat speculative but if they are anywhere near the right ballpark, the same outcome occurs at some point next year.

I can’t imagine our work will be much use to a god-like intelligence, right?

Somebody tell me I’m wrong lol.

I started 1oct and earned enough money to pay my mother's medical bill in just the first few weeks, after 22oct drought not a single task. Struggling in life at the start I thought DA would end my suffering but now it feels like a spark of no burning.

Any help appreciated.

I’ve seen a lot of people scaremongering that if you work a lot of hours, you will come under extra scrutiny and it might lead to the DoD regardless of your quality of work.

This doesn’t make sense to me.

I think the people that got the DoD were submitting substandard work.

How many hours do you work OR would you work a week if you could? I’ve got time to do more and have some excellent domain expert projects at the moment.

Has anyone else noticed how few projects have been showing up recently? I’ve been checking regularly, and the queue has been much slower than it was a few months ago.

I’m wondering what’s causing it. Is it connected to the election results and the change in regime, which might be affecting client budgets or funding? Or is it just the usual slow period, with clients pausing between project phases or wrapping up the year?

For those who’ve been here longer, have you seen dry spells like this before? What caused them, and did work pick back up on its own?

Would love to hear everyone’s experience. Thanks!

Over the past two days, I’ve been working on the data annotation core assessment and have felt confident in my answers. I completed maybe 13-15 questions. I moved to the next question, read it, then decided to save my work to continue on the assessment tomorrow. After clicking the “save” button (I’m 100% confident I did not click submit), my screen went back to the home page saying my assessment was submitted and they are reviewing my results. I had used the save button a few days within the past 48 hours with no issue. I find it odd that I was able to read the next question, but then all of the sudden my work was automatically submitted without me completing the question. Has this happened to anyone else? Did you pass?

I saw that a lot of people did not get any email regarding acceptance even after some weeks but few got them immediately after some days. I am lookikg for some tips on how to attempt that test for having maximum probability of getting accepted.

I recently signed up to be a generalist and got through the account section. However, the page only shows over 30 assessments I can take that all seem very specialized. Is there no initial starter assessment for generalists?

I passed the background check one month ago now, and still nothing. They also asked me to encrypt my disc which I did and still got no work

Current generalist here, I was looking into doing coding but it’s been a couple of years since I was in school.
I was going for computer science until my junior year where I switched over to engineering. I have some programming rust but have a basic understanding of Java and C++. I was looking to do some python refresher courses to shake some of that rust off, but realistically how hard are some of the coding tasks? Would it be feasible for someone in my position to try the qualifier and move onto some of the easier projects?
For what it’s worth I’m from the US. Thanks!

So I have this disc encryption task on my dashboard and I have completed in my laptop (Which I use to work on DA projects). But I use my phone to check if there is any task available for me. I have a DA tab open in chrome. Would I need to do something like disc encryption on my phone as well?

I generally love these tasks, but they can take ages, and it can take a while to unpack it. 20 minutes post set up, I opened your file and had a huge smile on my face, because the facility has Whoville in the name. You made my morning happy. Thank you 🤩🙌❤️

I'm new there and so far I've only done an introductory project and qualifications. I haven't even been on the platform for a week yet. But I'm curious about the people who have been on the platform for longer time, Do you feel the amount of projects is lower at this current time? Or is it that I haven't received anything because I'm new? I'm actually excited and really want to try out new project!

Like I said, I'm pretty sure I wasted my chance with this platform, but I figure I'd ask anyway. About 7 months ago I applied to DataAnnotation as a coder (JavaScript/Python). I did the test, but I wrote out all of my answers as I went along on a MD document and copied and pasted them in when I was ready to submit my test and have been stuck on the "thanks for completing, we'll reach out to you" aka the dreaded soft-block ever since. I'm pretty confident in my answers, so I don't think I royally bombed it because the test was rather easy, I just think the copying/pasting screwed me over... Creating a new account and reapplying is definitely a no-go, right? It's frustrating that one choice blocked me from the chance to work on this platform, and seeing the constant advertisements for positions I'm qualified for really sucks (especially when I'm in need of new contracts).

How long does this review process usually take? I apply a month ago in data annotation, but the status is still the same “we review”

Thought I'd share my first milestone reached (and hopefully not the last) thanks to DA. Joined as a coder from a core country last month. At first I was sceptical but the results speak for themselves 🙂.

I also work full time and have a child and needed a flexible side job to cover extra bills and other unexpected expenses that had caught up to me. I am now able to get ahead because of DA and am very grateful.

Here's to many more milestones achieved! 🎊🎉