One huge downside is there's no moat, so anyone can be a coach and sell courses. Even ex-clients who are already comfortable talking in sessions like this can turn into direct competition after seeing how you do it.
On the customer side of things, there's no way to "prove" how effective coaches really are since there is no hurdle to entry and they aren't accredited.
It's not like framing a house or software engineering or legal counsel, in that way.
Another downside might just be the vicarity of it. Instead of spending time and energy improving yourself, you're focused on improving others. Some of your biggest success cases may leave you feeling oddly empty. Maybe there's a case where helping a client becomes directly at odds with helping yourself - which do you choose?
The personality upkeep. Coaches, instructors, and mentors aren't really allowed to have off days - you are the beacon that moves others forward. You have to act and be motivating, positive, and encouraging no matter how you're actually feeling that day, or when you have a rude or uncharismatic client.
Low pay overall ($384 in 7 months). My strong opinion is that nobody should do any in-person client work of any kind (photography, massage, therapy, coaching) for less than $50 USD per hour, given communications overhead and transportation costs. If the work in question is valued at less from your research, there's not enough opportunity to justify doing it IMO (at least not for the money) - unless you see some trajectory where it scales or amplifies. If you can offer the service completely virtually and bring on other mentors, that's an example of a trajectory where it scales.
Sometimes you have a great idea and passion that just needs a slight change in how it's brought to market.
The case study of the LLM getting the basic Mono framework usage wrong seems outdated.
They're pretty flawless at any framework now, React, SwiftUI, Unity - literal skill issue if you can't get good code out of an LLM.
If an LLM can write a nuanced paragraph about any topic, it can certainly write a simple [insert popular framework] component which has considerably less potential variation.
Consider that there are 100k+ words in English, 90k+ in Spanish, and 77 in C# (38 in JavaScript!).
The LLM can write code.
Can it make software? No. Because software is a lot more than code.
But the LLM can write code.
Any anti-AI takes moving forward are going to have to acknowledge that I think
Some new accounts are likely getting buried by the AI countermeasures. The only thing I could suggest is to temporarily avoid the disagreeing comments and keep the comments and submissions interesting enough for people to vouch until the account is no longer green. Not a perfect solution but maybe there isn't one yet. The internet cute and fuzzy bunnies are why we can't have nice things.
Who said I have a theory? I just don’t believe it’s AI since I’ve seen the [dead] comments.
I don’t know what the reason for a mod to mark so many harmless often useful things as [dead] could be.
Sometimes a mod will appear and totally rip a person apart for what I felt was a regular comment. I see power tripping mods here have a mental breakdown over non-issues and ban people and remove all their comments ever posted.
goes to describe a theory. Did your comments in your other HN account get killed for no reason and that is why you are mad and saying the comments are real?
not all killed comments are AI comments but a good amount of them are because they are bots trying to farm karma. We see the ones that doesn't work but many cases just work and we don't notice.
Think of a typical news site with millions of ads flying in as you try to read - they are the causers of this shit ad world
Look what happened to YouTube after the news showed up there.
Look at the clusterfuck that is housing and banking.
Compare how any other vertical is ran by the main players vs Finance and Media - the two most shittily ran industries in the West.