Comment by nicbou

Comment by nicbou 2 days ago

I feel like this person might be just a few bad months ahead of me. I am doing great, but the writing is on the wall for my industry.

We should have more posts like this. It should be okay to be worried, to admit that we are having difficulties. It might reach someone else who otherwise feels alone in a sea of successful hustlers. It might also just get someone the help they need or form a community around solving the problem.

I also appreciate their resolve. We rarely hear from people being uncompromising on principles that have a clear price. Some people would rather ride their business into the ground than sell out. I say I would, but I don’t know if I would really have the guts.

Glemkloksdjf 2 days ago

Its a global industry shift.

You can either hope that this shift is not happening or that you are one of these people surviving in your niche.

But the industry / world is shifting, you should start shifting with.

I would call that being innovative, ahead etc.

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nicbou 2 days ago

The industry is not really shifting. It's not shifting to anything. It's just that the value is being captured by parasitic companies. They still need people like me to feed them training data while they destroy the economics of producing that data.

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- Glemkloksdjf 2 days ago
  
  They pay people in Malaysia to solve issues.
  Google has a ton of code internal.
  And million of people happily thumb down or up for their RL / Feedback.
  The industry is still shifting. I use LLMs instead of StackOverflow.
  You can be as dismissive as you want, but that doesn't change the fact that millions of people use AI tools every single day. People start using AI based tools.
  The industry overall is therefore shifting money and goals etc. into direction of AI.
  And the author has an issue because of that.
  
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  nicbou 2 days ago
  
  Do you know what my industry is? It might be worth showing curiosity before expressing judgement.
  
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lisbbb 18 hours ago

I can't shift to India, though, is the the thing.

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johnnyanmac a day ago

Sure they say that about every fad. Let's see how you feel when the bubble pops.
In my eyes, that's when the grifters get out and innovators can actually create value.

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- Glemkloksdjf a day ago
  
  Image editing is now working so well, last week i used nano banana instead of doing anything in photoshop.
  That image generation is already disrupting industries and jobs today.
  My mother! (non technical) had a call with a support ai agent just a few month ago.
  AI is also not a fad. LLMs are the best interface we had sofar. They will stay.
  AI Coding helps non developers to develop a lot faster and better (think researchers who sometimes need a little bit of python or 'code').
  I'm using AI to summarzie meetings i missed, i asked chatgpt to summarize error logs (successfully).
  AlphaFold solved protein folding.
  Nearly all roboters you see today are running on Nvidias Isaac and Groot.
  The progress has not stoped at all. When Nano Banana came out, Seedream 4 came out a week later. Now we have nano Bananan Pro and Gemini 3.
  After Gemini 3 came out, Opus 4.1 came out and now Deep Seek v3.2. All of them got better, faster and/or cheaper.
  
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  johnnyanmac a day ago
  
  >AI is also not a fad.
  I'm not convinced. I've heard all the justifications and how it saved someone's marriage (too bad it ended that other relationship).
  The numbers don't line up. The money from consumers isn't there, the money isn't actually there in B2B. It's not going to last. Refulations will catch up and strain things further once the US isnt in a grifter's administration and people get tired of not having jobs.Its a huge pincer attack on 4 fronts.
  After the crash and people need to put their money where their mouth is, let's see how much people truly value turning their brains off and consuming slop. There will be cool things from it, but not in this current economy.
  Until then, The bubble will burst.this isn't the 10's anymore and the us government doesn't have the money to bail out corporate this time.
  
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