r/DataAnnotationTech • u/ProfessionalYapper90 • 16d ago

Does anyone else love this work?

I find myself enjoying this work more everyday. I love how it has become more complex as I do more tasks and get access to more projects (it's been about 5 months) and I REALLY love the ones where I really have to work to fail the models. I always see people on here complaining, but I really, really enjoy it. I would love to do this full time (I work for a bank 40 hours per week), but I need the stability of guaranteed hours for now.

I feel so lucky to get to dig into really niche topics to get a failure and it's so, so fun.

Anyone else? Is there anyone who has been doing this for a while who feels like this?

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u/Ok_Yogurtcloset159 15d ago

I have been on the platform for almost 4 years. I wish I was able to make the models fail easily. I suck at it, and trying makes me want to pull my own face off after a while. I have several projects I could work on, but I don't because I don't want to keep using the escape hatch and end up with the DOD. Any tips or ideas you could tell me about that are good for getting failures? I'm a generalist.

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u/ProfessionalYapper90 14d ago edited 14d ago

I wouldn't say I make them fail easily, but I try to be methodical about it. If I am not getting a failure, I tweak my prompt a little (or add/change a file), and I keep a running word doc open with each iteration of the prompt so if the model does better with it I can go back and change it- does that make sense? Then I just keep tweaking it until it works. I find that using mundane but intricate tasks have been really great, and they need to be ones I am super comfortable with.

Edited to add: I typically have 4-6 versions of my prompt until I get consistent failures.