MIT Engineers

[eCat]

Son has been at his new job for a few months now, I assume he is doing alright, he is like reading wallpaper when you ask him anything

Over the weekend he hung out with some friends and they had their house for sale, asking $190K.

now I don't live in any kind of swanky neighborhood by no means, but if a house down the road is selling for $190K , its a fixer upper.

But he comes home all ready to talk about it with me. Starts telling me the only thing is needs is a new roof, water heater, and some ceiling replaced.

So tonight I am going to set down with him and we're going to create a budget showing him the true cost of home ownership, then I'm going to show him what it cost me to put a new roof on the house in 2018 prices.

I hate to crush his dream but this might be a lesson in motivation for him.

[aTm]

ECats gonna get the bullet right from his son when tge revolution comes

[DooKSucks]

Those post-lacrosse-practice laps are going to come back to haunt him...

[Dave23]

Heh

[innocentbystander]

Son has been at his new job for a few months now, I assume he is doing alright, he is like reading wallpaper when you ask him anything

Over the weekend he hung out with some friends and they had their house for sale, asking $190K.

now I don't live in any kind of swanky neighborhood by no means, but if a house down the road is selling for $190K , its a fixer upper.

But he comes home all ready to talk about it with me. Starts telling me the only thing is needs is a new roof, water heater, and some ceiling replaced.

So tonight I am going to set down with him and we're going to create a budget showing him the true cost of home ownership, then I'm going to show him what it cost me to put a new roof on the house in 2018 prices.

I hate to crush his dream but this might be a lesson in motivation for him.

Anonymous is going to fuck this shit up!

[eCat]

so, I ummm...bought that house my son was talking about today

[Jungle Rat]

[Dave23]

Heh

[hedge]

"But he comes home all ready to talk about it with me. Starts telling me the only thing is needs is a new roof, water heater, and some ceiling replaced."

I think he's got somebody in mind who will fix all that (and more) on the cheap (free). Smart boy...

[eCat]

I'll have something to keep me busy over the summer

[eCat]

Those post-lacrosse-practice laps are going to come back to haunt him...

I was thinking about that the other day

I should have never went to practice instead

[Jungle Rat]

If you need any help let me know

https://www.redfin.com/OH/Montgomery/92 ... e/76113824

[aTm]

so, I ummm...bought that house my son was talking about today

I knew my post about his son’s eventual socialist revenge would put the fear in ecat…

[sardis]

In 6 months he is going to sell it on Craigslist for $192K

[eCat]

that would be very depressing

I hope to be able to rent it until the son is ready to buy a home in a few years.

The wife was all for this , she actually pushed me to do it, so at least if we sink, we sink together.

If we fix it up, who knows, it might be our downsize home when we retire.

[eCat]

About a year ago, Ben found out that one of his friends had quietly started to work multiple jobs at the same time. The idea had become popular during the COVID-19 pandemic, when working from home became normalized, making the scheme easier to pull off. A community of multi-job hustlers, in fact, had come together online, referring to themselves as the “overemployed.”

The idea excited Ben, who lives in Toronto and asked that Motherboard not use his real name, but he didn’t think it was possible for someone like him to pull it off. He helps financial technology companies market new products; the job involves creating reports, storyboards, and presentations, all of which involve writing. There was “no way,” he said, that he could have done his job two times over on his own.

Then, last year, he started to hear more and more about ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by the research lab OpenAI. Soon enough, he was trying to figure out how to use it to do his job faster and more efficiently, and what had been a time-consuming job became much easier. ("Not a little bit more easy,” he said, “like, way easier.") That alone didn’t make him unique in the marketing world. Everyone he knew was using ChatGPT at work, he said. But he started to wonder whether he could pull off a second job. Then, this year, he took the plunge, a decision he attributes to his new favorite online robot toy.

“That's the only reason I got my job this year,” Ben said of OpenAI's tool. “ChatGPT does like 80 percent of my job if I’m being honest.” He even used it to generate cover letters to apply for jobs.

Over the last few months, the exploding popularity of ChatGPT and similar products has led to growing concerns about AI’s potential effects on the international job market—specifically, the percentage of jobs that could be automated away, replaced by a well-oiled army of chatbots. But for a small cohort of fast-thinking and occasionally devious go-getters, AI technology has turned into an opportunity not to be feared but exploited, with their employers apparently none the wiser.

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so when employers find out that they can hire a contractor to run ChatGPT part time, all 4 of those jobs will be eliminated.

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The people Motherboard spoke with for this article requested anonymity to avoid losing their jobs. For clarity, Motherboard in some cases assigned people aliases in order to differentiate them, though we verified each of their identities. Some, like Ben, were drawn into the overemployed community as a result of ChatGPT. Others who were already working multiple jobs have used recent advancements in AI to turbocharge their situation, like one Ohio-based technology worker who upped his number of jobs from two to four after he started to integrate ChatGPT into his work process. “I think five would probably just be overkill,” he said.

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One member of the overemployed, who, unusually, works three financial reporting jobs, said he’s found ChatGPT useful in the creation of macros in Excel. “I can create macros, but it takes me an hour, two hours, plus, to write the code, test it, make sure everything's working,” he said. By comparison, with ChatGPT, he can provide the parameters and it’ll “spit something out” that he can update and tweak to his specifications. The process can allow him to cram what is traditionally a “two-week long process” into a few hours. (He says he avoids providing ChatGPT with confidential information.)

[hedge]

Well this whole GPT seems like it's right in your career wheelhouse, eCat. What's you outlook on the whole thing? Do you think one dude adept at using GPT could do the work of 5 of your employees? 10? 20? Besides that, do you have any other thoughts or predictions of how GPT is going to change existence as we know it?

[eCat]

I think I'm glad I am out of this in 10 years.

Its going to be a serious disruptor.

[hedge]

Do you harbor any fears that AI may make you obsolete before then?

[hedge]

I don't even really know what you do (except deliver post-it notes by car to Florida), but I've always thought it was something computer related. Well, unless they come up with self-driving cars in the next 10 years, your post-it note courier job is secure...