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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by lyrial@lemmy.sdf.org to c/machinist@sh.itjust.works

I've gotten several job listings from Indeed that require CAM programming and access to a CNC. I have both. They're offering ~$135 per hour. The catch is that you use your usual work flow, make a part that your normally would and then remotely upload the results to this company so that they can train their AI to program CNC machines. I'm very against generative AI, but wow is that a lot of money for a 1 year contract. It took me 16 years to get good. Another 4 to make my own shop. But around 300k a year? It makes it hard. I'd love to know what other machinists think about this kind of thing.

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[-] MalReynolds@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

On the bright side, if they pay you (AI ppl are mostly scammers, get something up front) it likely won't do them much good in the near future, LLMs can't do that and robot VideoToAction is nascent. On the downside that'll stick around and later be useful to something, maybe terminators down the line. Choose your own adventure.

this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2026
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