Fiverr CEO: "AI is Coming For Your Jobs"

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by that point we’ll all be screwed :blessed:
fukk it
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Many of us have been saying this. Eventually some form of Universal Basic Income is a matter of societal stability.
This will never happen

They don't wanna pay ppl for working now

If it does happen, it will be so shytty won't be worth it
 
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Micha Kaufman 12:58

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Hey team, I've always believed in radical candor and despise those who sugar-coat reality to avoid stating the unpleasant truth. The very basis for radical candor is care. You care enough about your friends and colleagues to tell them the truth because you want them to be able to understand it, grow, and succeed.

So here is the unpleasant truth: Al is coming for your jobs. Heck, it's coming for my job too. This is a wake- up call.

It does not matter if you are a programmer, designer, product manager, data scientist, lawyer, customer support rep, salesperson, or a finance person - Al is coming for you.

You must understand that what was once considered 'easy tasks' will no longer exist; what was considered 'hard tasks' will be the new easy, and what was considered 'impossible tasks' will be the new hard. If you do not become an exceptional talent at what you do, a master, you will face the need for a career change in a matter of months. I am not trying to scare you. I am not talking about your job at Fiverr. I am talking about your ability to stay in your profession in the industry.

Are we all doomed? Not all of us, but those who will not wake up and understand the new reality fast, are, unfortunately, doomed.

What can we do? First of all, take a moment and let this sink in. Drink a glass of water. Scream hard in front of the mirror if it helps you. Now relax. Panic hasn't solved problems for anyone. Let's talk about what would help you become an exceptional talent in your field: 1. Study, research, and master the latest Al solutions in your field. Try multiple solutions and figure out what gives you super-powers. By superpowers, I mean the ability to generate more outcomes per unit of time with better quality per delivery. Programmers: code (Cursor…). Customer support: tickets (Intercom Fin, SentiSum…), Lawyers: contracts (Lexis+ Al, Legora…), etc.

2. Find the most knowledgeable people on our team who can help you become more familiar with the latest and greatest in Al.

3. Time is the most valuable asset we have-if you're working like it's 2024, you're doing it wrong! You are expected and needed to do more, faster, and more efficiently now.

4. Become a prompt engineer. Google is dead.

LLM and GenAI are the new basics, and if you're not using them as experts, your value will decrease before you know what hit you.

5. Get involved in making the organization more efficient using Al tools and technologies. It does not make sense to hire more people before we learn how to do more with what we have.

6. Understand the company strategy well and contribute to helping it achieve its goals. Don't wait to be invited to a meeting where we ask each participant for ideas - there will be no such meeting. Instead, pitch your ideas proactively.

7. Stop waiting for the world or your place of work to hand you opportunities to learn and grow- create those opportunities yourself. I vow to help anyone who wants to help themselves.

If you don't like what I wrote; If you think I'm full of shyt, or just an a$$hole who's trying to scare you - be my guest and disregard this message. I love all of you and wish you nothing but good things, but I honestly don't think that a promising professional future awaits you if you disregard reality.

If, on the other hand, you understand deep inside that I'm right and want all of us to be on the winning side of history, join me in a conversation about where we go from here as a company and as individual professionals. We have a magnificent company and a bright future ahead of us. We just need to wake up and understand that it won't be pretty or easy. It will be hard and demanding, but damn well worth it.

This message is food for thought. I have asked Shelly to free up time on my calendar in the next few weeks so that those of you who wish to sit with me and discuss our future can do so. I look forward to seeing you.

Yours, Micha
 

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you genuinely believe a thinking machine won't be able to bruteforce solutions for blue collar work?
Folks won’t be able to compete with a machine that can analyze, morph into a smaller robot or liquid, slip into cracks to fix shyt, slip out turn into a helicopter and fly back to home base while writing up the bill.

Working 24/7 and no need for breaks.

Militaries already got crazy shyt, only a matter of time for the civilian units.
 

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Folks won’t be able to compete with a machine that can analyze, morph into a smaller robot or liquid, slip into cracks to fix shyt, slip out turn into a helicopter and fly back to home base while writing up the bill.

Working 24/7 and no need for breaks.

Militaries already got crazy shyt, only a matter of time for the civilian units.

it's scary how many people are unable to grasp the fact that a thinking machine will eventually be able to re-engineer every aspect of our lives, they will be completely blindsided. it doesn't have to be "creative" like the human brain, it just has to consider countless combinations/possibilities at scale.
 

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he's right. i'd been using fiverr for years to do album cover art.

a couple of freelancers were decent but for the most part communication was a pain in the ass (most of them were foreign) and i'd often have to break down and explain the simplest shyt multiple times. they're hella slow and would often fukk up on the smallest shyt and some revisions would take an eternity. not to mention, they're always trying to get a tip for that bullshyt service.
since i found ChatGPT and some other AI sites for art :camby:
Album cover art! :mjlol:
 
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