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‘Overemployed’ Hustlers Exploit ChatGPT to Take on Even More Full-Time Jobs

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I don’t quite believe these stories but the obvious conclusion is to start your own consulting company where you are not limited by employment contracts…

Exactly. Why be sneaky when you could go the tried and true consulting -> productized consulting -> product route without worrying about losing your reputation?

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I don’t quite believe these stories but the obvious conclusion is to start your own consulting company where you are not limited by employment contracts…

…and watch as SW consulting engagements go from $50,000 to $50. I fear we’re racing to commoditize ourselves. Will we look back at the hiring frenzy of 2021 as the peak?

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I'd be very very curious to follow the life of all these "chatgpt does 80% of my work" people. Unless you code to-do list and sudoku html "apps" all day I doubt it's anywhere close to true

The reporter did at least some verification. Some of the subjects might be exaggerating a little but I think the story is mostly true. Some of them aren't writing code, they're using ChatGPT to write rough drafts of other content like emails and marketing plans, then doing some editing.

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I'd be very very curious to follow the life of all these "chatgpt does 80% of my work" people. Unless you code to-do list and sudoku html "apps" all day I doubt it's anywhere close to true

I strongly feel like this LLM hype should have revealed the bullshit job phenomenon [1] to the world. Instead nobody questions their bullshit reality, and assumes that if a program can perform in bullshit, it is as conscious as a person.

[1]: Graeber https://www.atlasofplaces.com/essays/on-the-phenomenon-of-bu...

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