I was helping someone today crowdsource for a tech gig, and found some great gigs for fun, unfortunately I know it wasn't going to thrill him because he's been applying for months now and still hasn't gotten anything decent.
He was doing a great tech gig in his final year of university but he couldn't match the stress of studying engineering with doing tech work and had to stop, unfortunately after graduating he couldn't go back to the job as others had filled the role and there was no vacancy.
So while I was trying to look for jobs for him, I discovered that even though the job platform was relatively, new a lot of people had already registered and submitted application for these gigs. This platform shows the number of applications that people submitted and the number of roles were available.
I saw a particular opening where about 20 people or so (can't remember) and over 2k people had already submitted applications, and believe me, with this particular role, I think the employers are going to be having a field day because since applicants are so much, they're either going to decrease their pay per hour, or are probably going to be strict with their employment methods since there are so many people.
There were also other roles too that weren't as saturated, but my point tallies with the post I made yesterday; AI is successfully stealing jobs and we're not even scared enough. You might think "how does AI makes the tech gig space really saturated"?
I'll tell you.
I know of people who applied for foreign jobs overseas, and got these jobs easily in 2022/23, but the truth is that even AI can do even better except providing human labor, in 2025, a lot of company's workload and workforce is done 80% by AI.
Hell, a Claude AI monthly subscription is 31$, and most companies will prefer not paying $8k a month when they can get company Claude for 100$ a month and higher physical cheaper labour for 2k$ a month.
Saving them over 5k$ a month. What this does is saturated the market since many people are already put of soft skill jobs, the remaining roles in the market becomes overly competitive. This excessive competition means that people can actually apply for a lot of roles without actually being chosen no matter how qualified they are.
Aren't you thrilled?
Some days ago, someone talked about using a 15$ Claude to recover a BTC wallet phrase that contained $400k, now imagine Claude being able to do that. This isn't me saying it's a bad development.
People are currently looking at how comfortable AI makes life, how immaculate and how efficient AI handles automation, while people are built to be analogical or simplistic in how we process things, AI also compartmentalizes these things and gives us accuracy and efficiency, but then, no one is currently looking at the price we might need to pay for all these.
Perhaps we won't all be alive to witness all these and perhaps this is why no one is looking at this, and even these AI model developers are not even drawling lines, perhaps in the future we'd get AI that can comfortably tell people if their suppose cheated or not, or things like body count but the reality is that while these sounds so appealing, the consequences are actually going to be unimaginable.
This isn't just a work saturation thing. I just think we'd take AI training and model development too far, and someday and perhaps humanity might not be able to handle the consequences
I see the laptop on, phone on... you are fully emerged in the digital life. While is great to be hi tech in the same time we need to enjoy real life little things. Balance is everything!
Thanks, photo was taken by me of someone close to me.
This is not just Nigerians who are looking for jobs in other countries, here in Pakistan many of youngsters are also looking for same because the value of Dollar has been incredibly increased over Pakistani Rupee and everything is skyrocketing;
Wow seriously? Well I think Pakistan has their peculiar issue, I think a lot of third world countries are like this, and we know it. So sorry about the issues in your country as well.
This is everywhere as per I know.
Even if ai are not really great at tech jobs, companies want to save money and don't want hire people, so less and less work places
Yeah, true. However I must confess that some AIs are extremely capable, Claude for example has been so extremely capable and some tech companies are already using it a lot
It will go as far as they can as long as there is a dollar to be earned. That's the way it works... For better or for worse... We'll see how things turn out down the road, assuming I'm still around when things get that advanced in twenty years or so!
Funny how in the end it's always about money, it always is!
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It's all about money as you've said and this is why we have the owners of these models trying to better them everyday, slam a higher subscription cost on them and hoping that people will go a long way to spend a lot of money on them.
It's just how the job market is now. I think the market is oversaturated, and companies will cut costs where they can.
Yeah, they'll definitely choose to cut cost whenever they can, and the automation we have around is helping them do it