I'm a content writer, i write articles and blog posts

didn't make much but enough to pay bills and buy treats for my dog

joined a startup two years ago as a creative associate, mostly copywriting and blog posts

AI has been on the rise then, but just at its nascent stage. life was good, i used chatgpt, really liked it.

then 2 years passed, bunch of LLMs are launched, all getting good every passing day

AI adoption becomes an everyday thing, everyone is pacing to keep up with the AI hype, my company was not any different

CEO said marketing should now move fast with AI, decides to bring in more folks under me to do things faster

now with AI and more folks, we were moving very fast. so were our customers, now most of our new leads are from chatGPT, thanks to web-search feature and links for which we rank for.

suddenly my job becomes to optimize for AI and not people, i do so.

work changes every day, no structure or strategy as before, something works with a new lead, double down on it for AI-optimized content

content gets pushed out even faster, emphasis on AI use becomes even stronger, AI now does 60% of our work, 2 guys recently hired gets fired because of work availability

2 becomes four, 4 becomes 5 and suddenly it's me and a new intern

slowly this trend also shifts to our customer, they no longer need our help to do services for them. apparently they're outsourcing what we did for them to an Ai agent they pay half of what they paid us

CEO panic, team leads panic, i stay numb as before, for some reason i've seen this coming for last few months

i don't complain, i don't panic, i just go to the CEO's desk and asks 'what happens to us now' he says he does not know

i go home, gives my doggo treats, takes a nap, wakes up to a gmail notification from the HR

somehow it was the very thing i expected - my services are no longer required

somehow i didn't have any reactions, i felt this was a long way coming, i do need to apply for more roles now but decided to vent it out somewhere for some clarity of mind

i don't have much friends, just me an my dog, so thought to write it out here