AI Turns Competence into a Commodity: Evidence from 2.26 Million Freelance Contracts
AI narrows skill gaps by helping weak performers the most. Employers are reacting: hiring in AI-exposed job categories now weights human capital 7.8% less and price 1.1% more than before ChatGPT and the demand premium for highly skilled workers is shrinking. Competence has become commodity, so sell judgment. Agentic AI will reverse the equalization and widen skill gaps again.
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 2229 min read
UX Roundup: UX Portfolios | Linkrot | Midjourney User Testing | AI-Sourced Articles | Cheaper AI
Target UX portfolios at busy hiring managers | Linkrot eats away at Web connectivity | Midjourney to start usability testing
Jakob Nielsen
Jun 10, 20246 min read
UX Roundup: Synchronizing Captions | SUS Survey | First Mac GUI | Student/Beginner Portfolios | Solve the Easy Problem | More UX Songs
Auto-sync makes YouTube captions easier to create | SUS questionnaire user satisfaction is too long | Revolutionary first Mac GUI
Jakob Nielsen
Apr 15, 20247 min read
UX Roundup: Portfolio Without Experience | AI-UX Course | Jakob on UX Greece | Test with 5 Users | ImageGen Shootout
How to build a UX portfolio before getting your first UX job | Usability testing with 5 users: the comic strip
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 18, 20247 min read