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Comment by saidnooneever | Hacker News Reader

give a list of industries killed please. that is a huge claim without any evidence provided (by you).

Stock photos got hit real hard by generative AI. Getty’s in chapter 11 and Shutterstock isn’t doing much better.

The translation market is also wrecked right now. Nobody needs a translator to Polish, the LLM is really good at that.

They're using "industry" in a very loose sense, they mean certain subsets of software development and B2B software tools.

Alright, do tell: Which subsets of the software development industry and which specific B2B tools, were "Killed" by generative AI?

Notion Mail, Mechanical Turk, Fiverr, Relay, a bunch of Salesforce, Upwork, Gitlab (~15% layoffs), Atlassian (lots of layoffs already - more product cuts coming), Stack Overflow, ...

And that's not counting AI companies "cannibalizing" their own products, like Sora video generation

Notion mail specifically wasn't killed because it got replaced by AI in its niche, moreso that the company is shifting their resources.

Wow I had no idea Mechanical Turk closed. I assumed it would be quite valuable for doing a lot of data labelling type of work that percolates into AI models.

The labs have their users as the perfect training data source now. Much better than mechanial turk.

Has Postman been killed?

Just have a look at https://killedbyai.xyz/?

That site is AI slop with a bunch of questionable nonsense. For example, they suggest that Devin, Cognition's product, shut down. I'm not even sure where they got that information.

stackoverflow.

Is that an industry?

You know you can just use ChatGPT to do this for you, right?

Here's one example for you:

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https://www.highereddive.com/news/chegg-layoffs-strategic-al...

> Chegg’s Q2 2026 revenue fell 51% year over year, to $51.8 million. Its disclosures identify AI competition among its business risks.

No offense but this is a bit of a weak example; Chegg got hit pretty early. No one since Chegg?

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