Originally published on robatdasorvi.com
Last week someone in a Dhaka tech group I follow posted a salary breakdown for an "LLM Evaluation Specialist" role at a London-based AI company. Remote-friendly, $70,000–$90,000 base. The replies were mostly confusion. What does that person actually do all day? A few years ago that question would have made sense because the job didn't exist. Now it does, and the pay is real, and I've been watching a whole category of work like it emerge while the public conversation stays stuck on what AI is taking away.
That conversation matters. Displacement is real. A copywriter losing freelance work to GPT-4 is not a hypothetical, and I'm not going to pretend the net effect of AI on employment is some simple positive number. But there's a second story that gets almost no oxygen: the specific new roles that companies are actively hiring for right now, which require skills that weren't on any job board in 2021. Those roles are what I want to think through here, because they're the ones people I know are actually trying to get into.
I've been building software from Dhaka for over a decade, so I've watched technology waves arrive with both the hype and the dislocation they carry. When e-commerce scaled in Bangladesh, logistics and payments work grew faster than retail work shrank. The net math on AI is probably similarly complicated. The roles below are part of that complication.
