On one side is AI swallowing millions of jobs, and on the other is humans being hired to clean up the nonsense AI often generates, finds Satyen K. Bordoloi This was early 2023, a few months after ChatGPT had just made the perfect superintelligence landing in our lives. A producer friend, who wanted a beat
There are a few people who have posted on Hacker News about it but I figured the pay probably sucked. It sounded like it would be treated as a menial job.
it’s very menial/easy. BUT you charge a premium for the service because as /u/pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip put it these places are very desperate to fix their fuck ups and fix them quickly. Like I’m talking builds or projects that could be months along and suddenly…nothing works. or something breaks. or nothing can be added. or more common than anything the AI claimed it had added something when it reality it either didn’t or simply made a #todo comment and vibe coders continued on.
But yes the pay is good. I essentially get paid to tell a company how much they fucked up and what it will take to fix. There is always the very slim possibility of refactoring but i’d say 8 times out of 10 the only clear path forward is to start from scratch and that generally means hiring devs again.
Yes, it’ll usually be treated like a menial job, because so many of the folks who fell for AI code wholesale are assholes. Non-assholes often have a friend who tells them when they’re fucking up that badly.
But the pay tends to be very good, anyway, because assholes are usually desperate for any help they can still get.
There are a few people who have posted on Hacker News about it but I figured the pay probably sucked. It sounded like it would be treated as a menial job.
it’s very menial/easy. BUT you charge a premium for the service because as /u/pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip put it these places are very desperate to fix their fuck ups and fix them quickly. Like I’m talking builds or projects that could be months along and suddenly…nothing works. or something breaks. or nothing can be added. or more common than anything the AI claimed it had added something when it reality it either didn’t or simply made a #todo comment and vibe coders continued on.
But yes the pay is good. I essentially get paid to tell a company how much they fucked up and what it will take to fix. There is always the very slim possibility of refactoring but i’d say 8 times out of 10 the only clear path forward is to start from scratch and that generally means hiring devs again.
Yes, it’ll usually be treated like a menial job, because so many of the folks who fell for AI code wholesale are assholes. Non-assholes often have a friend who tells them when they’re fucking up that badly.
But the pay tends to be very good, anyway, because assholes are usually desperate for any help they can still get.