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[–] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 47 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

If such rewrites netted a similar fee to traditional content writing jobs, it would be one thing — but as Richardson noted, companies pay less for cleaning up AI copy because they presume it's easier and less time-consuming, when it fact it often requires as much mental labor as content she had written herself.

Yeah so, they used the earth-burning slop generators, fired people over it, and now rehire cheaper to fix their hot mess (which sounds like one of the most futile and infuriating task one could do). Does not sound like as much of a win as the title would lead you to believe.

Speaking as a dev, I cannot wait for my job to be fixing inane machine slop code with half the pay, sounds like a real treat.

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Give it time. Right now they don't want the balance sheet to show how expensive this experiment was, but cheap devs will only get them so far. Eventually they'll need to pay someone properly to fix what the AI and the monkeys broke.

[–] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

That's a very fair point. I would counter-argue that given the direction that software (and design, and writing...) has taken, even before the machine generated slop, it is unclear to me whether or not there is/will be a real incentive to properly fix things. But I know I am naturally quite pessimistic, so I hope you are right.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I was pretty shocked that they were hiring devs to fix shit so soon, but I'm betting they're using outsourced devs for it, which like you said usually requires real devs to fix.

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