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by geye1234 861 days ago
I had a couple of questions if you don't mind:

- I have a Business Analyst/Product Mgr background. I've never been a developer, but I can read code well enough and get a good idea of what's going on. Do I have a chance of breaking into this? How would I go about doing so (other than the obvious like trying to do it as part of my day job)? - Do you worry LLMs are going to put you out of business? - Very broadly speaking, could I make $150k doing this?

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"Do I have a chance of breaking into this?"

In my experience, the success stands and falls with how well you can grasp technical topics and explain them to people who have less time than you to learn them.

I know a bunch of good writers, who never got far, because their technical understanding wasn't enough to write guides/tutorials/explainers.

"Do you worry LLMs are going to put you out of business?"

Not yet. I use LLM every quarter to write an article, and they've always been bad.

"Very broadly speaking, could I make $150k doing this"

Probably.

An article makes you between $500 and $1000, depending on the length and quality. If you could write 200 a year, that could work.

Belated thanks for the reply.