[cj]

My sister owns an etsy shop that sells customized items.

They have a graphic designer who's in photoshop all day doing the same repetitive task for each item that's ordered.

This is the first category of jobs to be killed off. It can't already be killed off because it requires some human judgement (at least right now) to make sure photographs on a custom ornament are centered and cropped in a visually appealing way.

I can see AI killing off that kind of low skill graphic design with very limited judgement calls (or creativity) needed.

[quonn]

Couldn't conventional software have done this? And it didn't. So why would AI do it now?

[cj]

They're not big enough to pay a developer to write and maintaining a software system.

From what I've heard, they were able to use ChatGPT to write applescript shortcuts to automate a lot of the tedious repetitive tasks, without knowing how to code.

Basic things like "Open file in photoshop" then "mark file as in-progress in google sheet", etc...

So basically the value add was being able to write applescript shortcuts without knowing how to code just by going back and forth with ChatGPT.

(This is a boring example but something us developers might take for granted re: use cases for non-developers)