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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.

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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.

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.

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.

Do you know what my industry is? It might be worth showing curiosity before expressing judgement.

When i write 'the industry' and talk with people on hackernews, my context is IT.

Feel free to tell me what your industry is so we can continue our discussion.

I provide guides and tools for people settling in Germany. My work involves putting a lot of new information on the internet. There is no training data for that. A lot of it happens IRL and is captured by infrastructure and connections that I have built myself. It requires knowledge and empathy that are not in any LLM datasets.

It’s tech, but not everyone in tech is a coder. The industry is bigger than big tech and SaaS.

You are just an info broker and not in it.

I helped a collegue to migrate to germany, your job can easily be optimized away by an LLM.

Biggest issue he had was communication/translations. Second one was finding the right information.

Try perplexity and it will find good resources. Make pictures and use google lense for translation. Talk to ChatGPT to get explanaitions on how things work in germany.

I also have no clue what you mean by 'connections and infrastructure'. You know the number of some Ausländerbehördenmitarbeiter?

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.

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.

>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.

Its not just a battle between companies, its also a battle between countries.

USA vs. China. If USA stops research on AI right now, China will leapfrog even further.

And companies like Google and Microsoft can easily affort the current AI spend.

I agree with that take--a lot of tech stuff was buoyed by investment capital and everyone thought it was great until they had to start paying full price for it. Those massive data centers full of expensive, electricity and water sucking hardware are not going to last if they have to be fully funded by customers.

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

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