AI obsolescence is “coming for basically everyone in due time,” says one engineer who went from earning $150k to being locked out of the workforce for over a year.
Hey, i’m not a dev but i thought i’d share my recent experience since you mention something related to it. I’m trying to set up a website for a small business i want to start. I got to the stage of creating the website so started contacting companies. I contacted about 15 companies, mostly small and also some sole-proprietorships (consultants). Only 3 of those i contacted responded. I don’t know why. Maybe that’s the industry standard - if the job’s not for you, don’t waste anyone’s time responding to emails about it. No problem. Still, i had to get more responses. So i got onto ChatGPT and asked the AI to help me improve my query email. It made the improvement, but at the end of its response the AI wrote something like: “You can do this project yourself. I’ll help you.” I scoffed, but after another week of no responses from human web devs, i dove into doing it myself. I have a year of computer science from college, and built some hobby sites back when CSS was new, so there was a little learning curve, but nothing AI couldn’t help me over with ease. Now the site’s almost ready to go live after only six weeks of part time work by myself, and it’s exactly what i want. The AI saved me between 4k and 10k usd. It’s crazy/scary/exciting/empowering/scary/crazy what you can do with the tech.
Hey, i’m not a dev but i thought i’d share my recent experience since you mention something related to it. I’m trying to set up a website for a small business i want to start. I got to the stage of creating the website so started contacting companies. I contacted about 15 companies, mostly small and also some sole-proprietorships (consultants). Only 3 of those i contacted responded. I don’t know why. Maybe that’s the industry standard - if the job’s not for you, don’t waste anyone’s time responding to emails about it. No problem. Still, i had to get more responses. So i got onto ChatGPT and asked the AI to help me improve my query email. It made the improvement, but at the end of its response the AI wrote something like: “You can do this project yourself. I’ll help you.” I scoffed, but after another week of no responses from human web devs, i dove into doing it myself. I have a year of computer science from college, and built some hobby sites back when CSS was new, so there was a little learning curve, but nothing AI couldn’t help me over with ease. Now the site’s almost ready to go live after only six weeks of part time work by myself, and it’s exactly what i want. The AI saved me between 4k and 10k usd. It’s crazy/scary/exciting/empowering/scary/crazy what you can do with the tech.