Speaking as a still-practicing consultant of 17+ years, and as someone who probably isn't in Mercor's target market, I've been told my role at this particular juncture is less of the crunching and more of the "whisper in my ear/let me confess my sins" … and agents might well take over that confessor-priest role soon!
"It will lead to a lot of existential crises for people who are attached to being able to grind through enormous amounts of data and other tasks that agents are clearly on the verge of “solving”"
Paul, Has Mercor approached you yet to do some screen recordings demonstrating the Pathless path? You’ve got that expert level knowledge in that domain.
Super interesting piece, thanks for writing this. As someone who is somewhere in the consultancy / agency space (although I don’t like those terms and would contest them in a longer comment), and particularly as someone who prioritises working with junior engineers, I now see my role as essentially supporting them to ramp up to being ‘high level execs’ who don’t only deliver the features but also work closely with the client and have the autonomy to make judgement calls and executive decisions on the fly. I’m there to provide accountability and also coaching / support, but I really do see my role as facilitating their learning on all the things AI cannot (never will be able to?) do - managing relationships, making judgement calls, taking accountability, being creative.
Speaking as a still-practicing consultant of 17+ years, and as someone who probably isn't in Mercor's target market, I've been told my role at this particular juncture is less of the crunching and more of the "whisper in my ear/let me confess my sins" … and agents might well take over that confessor-priest role soon!
"It will lead to a lot of existential crises for people who are attached to being able to grind through enormous amounts of data and other tasks that agents are clearly on the verge of “solving”"
Paul, Has Mercor approached you yet to do some screen recordings demonstrating the Pathless path? You’ve got that expert level knowledge in that domain.
not yet but im a top 5 linkedin voice on the topic
i actually want to sign up for the consulting gig just to see what its like
also you may have a billion dollar business if you can get all your consultants to screen record their work haha
I definitely see this happening already in both the software engineering and psychology fields (people being paid to train their AI replacements).
This may sound snarky, but: is this any different than building (i.e. training) software to do a job?
I think so. Selling a product to humans versus not quite seeing the end product. Over time though people may see it as normal
Super interesting piece, thanks for writing this. As someone who is somewhere in the consultancy / agency space (although I don’t like those terms and would contest them in a longer comment), and particularly as someone who prioritises working with junior engineers, I now see my role as essentially supporting them to ramp up to being ‘high level execs’ who don’t only deliver the features but also work closely with the client and have the autonomy to make judgement calls and executive decisions on the fly. I’m there to provide accountability and also coaching / support, but I really do see my role as facilitating their learning on all the things AI cannot (never will be able to?) do - managing relationships, making judgement calls, taking accountability, being creative.
Yeah it seems like the expected ramp time will accelerate too
On some level, we're all training AI whether we're being paid for it or not.
Why are you posting slop here