Fashion designer versus Product designer
Fashion designer
The shape of the work holds. The admin around it thins out considerably.
Product designer
The job is becoming a partnership. Output goes up, and the judgement calls become most of the value.
Fashion designer sits 10 points above Product designer. Which is not a statement about skill, difficulty or worth. It is a statement about what a machine can currently do.
Input by input
The single score is the least interesting thing on this page. This is where the difference actually is.
- Tasks a machine can help with Assisted
- 62 78
- Tasks a machine can do without you Done outright
- 30 46
- Tasks needing hands, presence or a body Physical
- 34 6
- How close robotics is to that physical work Robotics reach
- 30 40
Higher is generally good news. It means more of the work gets faster without the work going away.
This is the number most people mean when they say exposure. It is kept separate from assistance on purpose.
Protective only for as long as robotics cannot reach it. Read this one next to the robotics number, never alone.
Low reach turns physical work into shelter. High reach turns it into the main exposure.
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