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“everything is brighter with a molotov cocktail” - i learned that today
Too late. Didn’t have time to prep backup plan, clients all went AI. Now I’m job hunting like a 15 years old trying to figure out what I can do with my skills now that everyone thinks they can be great at anything using Large lying models.
What did you do that all your clients went to AI?
My service cost money and chatgpt was free. They all took the person that was interfacing with the multiple linguists and put that person in charge of asking the translations to chatgpt.
They lost in quality, quality control, cultural fitness of the message, creativity. But none of them cared and they just started pasting texts into chatgpt.
It’s not just me either. Projects are multilingual so there can be dozens of translators working on a given project. We all tried to reason and explain why that was stupid as hell.
But money saved is money so they did it anyway.
Initially I tried looking for new clients but the once buzzing world of translation was a ghost town, no one was asking for translation services anymore.
Some people don’t do AI for money, there’s a subgroup that thinks they are helping by doing the prep work with AI so we can deliver to them faster . That’s easier to work with because they usually understand when we explain why it doesn’t help at all.
Honestly, just wait. This happened to a lot of us in 2002 and 2008. It sucks, but they’ll learn they can’t do everything with AI and they’ll SLOWLY hire people back. But it will take time.
job sites essentially made it very hard to find many jobs, i think because AI is being used in resume and screening by employers, its not getting any better. before that they were already doing something similar to AI to screen people out, AI just have more false positive, or if they made sure the AI would have denials.
No way AI will get to the point where it can steal catalytic converters.
Eh, give it twenty years.
Take a 6 month vacation and then negotiate double my pay when they frantically try to rehire me.
This, exactly!
I’ll accept a substantial ownership stake in the whole place, in exchange for making a leasurely attempt to pull their asses out of the fire.
Start a new career fixing all the fuckups made by AI. If you think vibe coding is dangerous, try vibe machining
I work in cybersecurity. My job is in no danger. AI seems to be an expert in things until you start asking it questions about a subject you’re an expert in. Then it all falls apart. Anyone who thinks they’re using AI for cybersecurity or thinks AI can do cybersecurity knows nothing about cybersecurity.
The only people who would use AI for cybersecurity wouldn’t hire a cybersecurity firm anyway but would instead ask their friend Bob who “knows computers” and would get roughly the same level of expertise as a result and feel just as happy about either.
Right now they’re using it for attacks, so it’s fighting itself lol. I fucking hate what AI has done to jobs, the environment, minds of people who use it. We spent a whole generation denying cookies, now we’re giving our info away. Brainless morons.
Flint Michigan still has shit for water, but data centers are drinking up millions of gallons per day. I wanna see a ceo of any dc to drink a gallon of the water they say comes out clean for the environment.
And the noise destroying wildlife, people, permanent headaches. Wtf america. Money does not trump humanity.
https://stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/sites/stpp/files/2025-07/stpp-data-centers-2025.pdf
https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-centers-and-water-consumption
Flint’s water is okay now
Only since last year. 11 years of crisis, still 2 years before real progress started. What a failure of a state. So many felons from that case, absolutely trash people.
What can you say about Mythos?
I have no doubt that it’s a PR stunt not releasing this amazing thing that’s so incredible they can’t even show you! Their last code leak and showed brittle memory issues, AI generated functions with incredibly inefficient functions that appear to be designed to inflate API calls.
Open AI also immediately had a press release about another super secret project that they can’t show you that they also somehow released 6 months ago. The one that was already released is also too dangerous to be released!
PR stunt after PR stunt. Just trying to drum up more investors.
Not to mention the Mythos red team report claims, even at the currently subsidized inference prices, it cost over $20,000 to find that OpenBSD bug
To be fair, such bugs can easily be worth quite a bit more. If it can indeed automate finding RCEs and similar for everyone with a few $10k, then that’s suddenly way more accessible than paying a guy in a basement somewhere a million in shitcoins for that RCE.
Or more likely, bounty programs will be shut down because of dealing with AI slop flooding their systems.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/21/curl_ends_bug_bounty/
Maybe. But I am talking about both above the table and more shady government programs. Ever wonder where the guys at Pegasus and friends get their exploits from? They aren’t all super great hackers, they buy a lot of stuff, or so I heard. After all, for someone without money, it is a hard decision to be paid a year’s wages right now or to go the responsible disclosure route, and potentially get nothing.
And iirc the advertised price for juicy bugs in common platforms and apps was quite substantial. So, according to demand and supply, the price for such exploits was rather high, and is now significantly lower.
AI cannot take my job because I am already jobless.
Just watch, they’ll figure out a way to get AI to do that poorly too.
AI already does that, well enough. It is probably, difficult for it to be useless poorly.
I am studying CS. AI has already taken my job. I am glad to be studying CS anyway. I had a lot of anxiety about it early on and was bummed the fuck out, had to do some soul searching and remember why I chose CS in the first place. I like computers, I wanna know how they work. And I don’t wanna let AI dumben me down and make me forget for the bubble will eventually pop.
Unless something revolutionary happens, AI is not taking your job anytime soon. This is just another wave of the tech sector trying to beat down developers because they don’t want to pay them.
If current AI systems could actually replace people, the the job market would have already collapsed. Right now in the US the job market sucks because of Trumps policies and wars.
Revolt until I get ubi or we seize the means of production.
It already took, I’m freelance dev and the only client I had decided to start vibe coding their own things. Never requested anything anymore from me. All he does is a .html page with raw javascript.
It’s pure slop of course, but it seems it’s enough for him and do the job.
I refuse to work in corporation hell.
Next step will be suicide or living on the streets asking for food and temporary jobs just to have what to eat.
There’s all kind of dev work that needs to be done in industries that aren’t “tech first”, for example a industrial machine manufacture needs someone to program the robot arms and gui - ai doesn’t know how the brand new machine works.
Commercial buildings have all kinds of systems; lighting controllers, audio systems, HVAC, networks, security systems and so on. All of that needs both someone to program the device (and firmware support) and someone to physically deploy and integrate those systems.
It’s pretty hard to avoid corporate hell. Some people find success in smaller, well established, private companies. Less corporate nonsense, or at least HR knows your name and there’s no investors demanding a mass-layoff.
My suggestion is to find something where you’re on-staff for a company that exists outside of the “digital” realm.
Resources in The United States
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline 9-8-8 https://988lifeline.org/
Veterans Crisis Line 9-8-8, Press 1 https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/
Crisis Text Line Text HOME to 741741 https://www.crisistextline.org/
TrevorLifeline 1-866-488-7386 (for LGBTQ youth) https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
Trans Lifeline 1-877-565-8860 (for the transgender community) https://translifeline.org/
(copied from duckduckgo)
Not mentioned is 911, if you’re actively considering something call them too.
There are lots of things you can do besides working in a corporate hell that you should consider before you get to suicide. You haven’t even taken out a huge loan to start your own business yet.
Can I clarify that this isn’t an endorsement for taking out a loan
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I know the addresses of several billionaires, and I am not too good to commit cannibalism
What does that have to do with OP’s scenario?
If I cannot afford cake, I will eat the rich.
Ok but why wait
The Winchester.
It might have to be more than one pint
Depends.
My main job it would be interesting. I mainly plan for organisations how to handle disasters. Not necessarily IT disasters but actual one - what happens if your hospital is on fire, your airline has hundreds of people stranded somewhere (yeah, we had a bad time recently), your muncipial water supply goes bad, the Russians actually come,etc.
If AI can do that on a level it replaces my staff and me…well…good for everyone else,because right now it’s a underdeveloped and rarely looked upon issue.
In my side job I am still working in my original trade as a critical care paramedic. Until AI can fully replace one there it will take a long time (but we see a lof of actually beneficial developments that makes the job insanely more easy and capable) and I am very likely retired by then. What is far more likely is that societies won’t be able to pay for proper healthcare anymore…and that would be “not replaced” technically, I guess.
I’m fairly decent with mechanical work and I can work trades too.
But I won’t be doing that; if AI takes my job, it’s taken the economy and it’ll be a dystopia. I’ll be farming my back yard wishing it was big enough to sustain my family and knowing it’s not.
