Episode Details

The AI job market looks packed — AI engineer and AI consultant topped LinkedIn's fastest-growing American jobs list, and 2.5% of US postings now ask for AI skills. But the crowd is all standing in the same queue: roles where AI is the whole job. The openings are where AI attaches to a second noun — claims adjusting, pediatric triage, freight forwarding — and where a 56% wage premium goes to people who pair AI with expertise they already have. This episode walks through four undercrowded pockets: pairing AI with domain knowledge, expert data work for annotation firms like Mercor and Surge, forward-deployed engineering for companies nobody has heard of, and productised AI services for small businesses that four out of five haven't touched. Plus what the PwC barometer, Lightcast, and a Harvard/IG Group study actually say about who wins. Episode 6083 — myweirdprompts.com/n/6083 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/705198)