I got my master's degree (with honors) in CS from top 3 uni in my europoor country. Now i'm working as a janitor for minimum wage.AI destroyed my life. AI took my job. AI made me permanent underclass.AI made me childfree.
>>109229831No anon, that was fiat money, janitorship in the gold standard gave you ~750k /year todays money (paper gold doesnt count) .
>>109229831You could be a janitor here and get no pay.
>>109229831>Now i'm working as a janitor for minimum wage.damn, that's still better than aibro losers on this board lol
>>109229831Just get a helpdesk job bro
>>109229831>frogfaggot>is a retard Yup, checks out
>>109229831I got my bachelors degree in CS from the second most prestigious university in America. Now I'm working as a flagger since building stupid shit that doesn't actually help anybody burned me out while working in industry. Now I get to goof around on rural backroads while being outside in nature and prompting my LLMs from my phone via TTS and STT.I build the things I enjoy, and if one of them happens to really take off I'll quit my job and commit full time to maintaining a project I'm actually passionate about.I make enough money on the side from my dev projects that now my income is essentially unchanged, and since I got used to living off of the flagging salary I just invest the extra money over my flagging pay. I continue to work this job because it gives me stability, routine, and makes me feel like I'm actually helping people, since the retards on the road would absolutely crash into each other or my road crews if I wasn't there. It's all about your perspective.
>>109230441What is a flagger?
>>109229831Based. Fuck Luddites
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>>109229831Just get an AI degree bro
>>109230504Interesting. Do you do anything else but flag? How much does it pay? I do feel like repetitive, somewhat manual labor outdoor jobs are almost preferable to the rat race, cut throat nonsense that goes on in tech. I kind of just want to dig holes all day and forget about keeping up with the latest trends and whatever else.
>>10923059423/hr base, but we get an automatic 4 hours just for showing up to the yard and 8 hours pay once we make it to 6hrs on the clock. I work for a company that exclusively does flagging for utility companies so most of my time is spent waiting around in my car at the yard for some linemen to actually need me; I mostly get paid to sit on my ass. I got a starlink dish, 1KWh battery pack and a laptop mount for my car so I just work on my laptop during those times. When they need us it's usually on a backroad somewhere since that's where trees tend to fall on lines and shit, or a really busy road where they can't get away with parking the bucket trucks in a driveway(uncommon, maybe 10% of the time. Mostly its backroads). So it's either slow enough that I can fuck off and work on my projects or fast paced enough that I stay engaged playing frogger with retards on the highway. It can be dangerous but most of the time if you're getting hurt/killed it's a skill issue. Just have an escape route planned for when some retard burns in at 40 over the limit. I started doing AI data annotation since it pays 15-25/hr and I can do it while sitting in my car but that got too boring so i started building stuff with claude at first and later GPT(though back to claude with the fable release). I briefly automated the data annotation job until the platform i was working on moved away from the tasks that were easily automatable, so that was my first taste of building something that just passively made me money. It was a fun challenge dodging Meta's bot detection. I briefly worked in infosec before I quit the industry so I've been trying my hand at bug bounty hunting with these models which has actually been the single highest hourly rate I've ever made. Last payout I got was 1500 for about 4 hours of actual workalso have a bunch of different passion projects I'm building that will either make me a ton of money or nothing, but I'm perfectly happy if I don't see a cent from that.
>>109229831Just make your own AI company bro.
>>109229831you've been brainwashed. time to see a therapist.
>>109230496I am keeping 100% of the money I earned you gay little meme spouting Nazi faggot.
>>109229831Here's some hopium, AI investors have pumped in trillions and when AI reaches it's physical limitations, companies will fail to deliver. This is the AI bubble. It will burst eventually. It's not a matter of if, but when. And if I'm wrong and it never bursts, everyone will be broke as AI will cause a 95+% unemployment rate. Then governments will be forced to implement UBI just to stay in power.
>>109230781That is quite interesting actually. How do you do the bug bounty hunting? Is it mostly automated and through agents? My problem is that I just don't really have many good ideas for singular projects, let alone projects that could make money. Are you making anything from your passion projects at all yet?
>>109229831make your own AI lol and then sell it to chuds
>>109231190> I am keeping 100% of the money I earned you gay little meme spouting Nazi faggot.
should have picked computer engineering
poland?
>>109229831imo taking university course should've been a hobby instead of for the purpose of earning big bux.
>>109231490bro.I chose cybersecurity for my bacalaureat degree and now I still am working physical security in target.
I knew that my perspectives will be grim, so I went to a random college and neeting since graduation, despite the fact I was the only person who actually knew how to do things
>>109231564i am the same I think, but I don't neet I do have a job unrelated to my degree. Everybody in my classes (online, but real college) seemed so clueless and I was always going above and beyond in my projects because the minimum was just fucking boring. Yet I don't feel confident to try and get a job.
>>109229831Janitors don't make minimum wage, it's skilled labor.
>>109231242my bounty workflow is itself a passion project so technically yes. It is almost entirely automated, except for the final step where I manually verify that the vulnerability is valid and in scope for a bounty. I've been using my embargoed bounty findings and patch diffs from disclosed CVEs to create test sets for an unpublished benchmark that I use to perform process improvement on my workflow using Karpathy's auto-research methodology to burn up whatever usage I have left over on sunday before weekly reset, it's allowed me to take the pipeline from 1:20 signal to noise to maybe 1:4-3 with roughly 80% detection within my testing dataset. Without the pipeline that drops to roughly zero(passing the model the entire repo and telling it "find all the bugs") but that's mostly just because I chose to populate the dataset with bugs that LLMs have trouble finding. My real passion project is scraping the darknet though. The high quality market archives died with Agora. Main path to monetization there is threat intelligence, it's annoying to solve DNM captchas and any solutions tend to be ephemeral which is why there's no good public data here. Eventually I'll probably try to monetize this as a threat intelligence service or something. Some crypto traders might be interested in the data too. Or I might just give Gwern the whole thing to host on his archive. At this point I have near daily snapshots of most of the major markets.
>>109231743I guess I'll finish some of my projects and start looking for something. Not sure how my college mates are doing, since I was writing code for some of them and helping them with their projects, sometimes during exams (the teachers would directly told me to help them, so they'll pass the exam)
>>109231779ye we might be the same, I hope you have a better success than me.
>>109231769That's some interesting stuff, especially if you bypass the captchas and archive useful resources, because it seems like most people don't really care about .onion, even though it still has some useful information in the ocean of larpers, scammers and glowies.>>109231787Thanks! I hope you'll succed too!
>>109231769I'm >>109231242Not sure if you're still around, but would you have any pointers for someone trying to get into bug bounties? I have a CS degree and a lot of knowledge of Linux, and security is a legitimate interest of mine and something I think about first and foremost in any project. It seems like you have a very employable skill set. Very interesting that you chose to forego your high paying job in such a horrific economy, but if what you're doing works for you then that's the main thing I suppose.>using Karpathy's auto-research methodology to burn up whatever usage I have left over on sunday before weekly resetAre you talking about token usage here? Man, LLMs debugging and red teaming codebases has got to be one of their best usecases. Out of curiosity, do you know of any resources for where to start with what you're doing? Should I just ask Claude kek?
>>109229831learn to code
>>109230441>>109230504>>109230781>>109231769this just sounds too good to be true, so I'll call it LARP for nowcan you provide any proof for anything you say? not asking you to dox yourself with some links to the vulns you've found, but maybe some photos you took while flagging or somethingor a photo of your 1 kWh battery packbut if all you said is real, then that's kinda cool I guess, and makes me a tiny bit jealous even
>>109229831My whole life whenever I want to do something -- that whole field crashes and burns pretty much.I wanted to do CS because my buddy got free masters in CS, I was like 50/50 on it, he got a government job and is making like 105K. I was making $115K as PM. Decided to do CS, half way through registration I realize I dont need to get a shitty degree, ChatGPT can write code for me. I slopped together my first 300 lines of code that worked as translation layer between a scientific instrument and a medical interface, this was my first programming Aha! moment when I not only understand what programming was and what it did, it opened my mind to all the capabilities code can do, and realization that CS degree is obsolete. If you finished your degree 3 years ago youd be fine, but even 2 years ago there was already a complete collapse, now, forget about it
>>109229831>smart enough to get a degree>not smart enough to adapt to AIYou're good at going to school and taking tests. You are bad at computer sciences.
>>109231528Fuck I was going to get all kinds of cybersecurity degrees, now AI can do best penetration security you can imagine, you just need an IT guy run an algorithm to secure X, allow Y, special permissions for Z.
>>109232185Exactly this. A masters degree with no experience is honestly such a red flag too. All the more hilarious europoors will get a masters degree just to top out around $120k a year with 20 years of experience>but muh vacation days>but muh workers rightsIt's no wonder none of you make any real money, you're not serious people, you're just schoolchildren larping in an American man's world
>>109232210that's a lot of unprompted anger against euros lol. Are things that bad in muttistan than you feel the need to lash out?
>>109229831>AI made me childfreeAnd that's a good thing.
