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
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.
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.