"Three years after the mainstream adoption of ChatGPT, results have been mixed: Within tech firms, vibe coding is nixing the need for entry-level software developers, while some workers across industries are foisting rapidly generated, verbose, and sloppy AI nonsense onto their colleagues, leading to wasted time and a breakdown of trust. Even Sam Altman said last year that people have started to affect a sort of AI accent when speaking, and now some social platform discourse "feels very fake.""
-- Having been one of those professional writers who until 2024 worked for two decades writing for hire, the article is a nice "best scenario" that isn't translating to most of what was destroyed. The primary reason was that the people who did the hiring fell head over heels for AI versus paying someone for skilled writing. That destroyed a lot of careers and professionals who couldn't afford to wait for people to come back to their senses again about how shitting AI writing was. So, if someone is getting the benefit now of companies wanting real writing again, they are either new rookies getting lucky or the few who still managed to hold on and finally landed some reliable contracts again.