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 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
