Best of the AI project companies, good for supplement, not as main income
Nearly all of the project managers and support staff that work directly with Mercor (referring to the humans, though the AI bots are fine) have been great, better than most humans. They are understanding about human circumstances and about how the nature of their projects can sometimes conflict with more predictable,routine work. The pay is good, gets distributed like clockwork weekly, and is almost always hourly as opposed to other AI projects that pay only for approved tasks. My only major criticism is that a large number of the projects are unreliable. There will be a major initial push like, "GO GO GO clear your schedules for 40 hours a week!" That is common in tech, but as a contractor, when they realize that the platforms or algorithm , or...whatever is not performing as anticipated, suddenly you will have days and weeks with nothing. So you've cleared your schedule anticipating work/income that doesnt come. Sometimes the projects resume, sometimes they don't. And, as is the nature of these types of projects, it is nearly impossible to accurately predict if, and when, the projects will resume. The clients will tell the Mercor project managers that everything will be functioning asap, but they do not actually know what the bugs are, and as they dig they find more and more layers that need to be fixed for us to be able to effectively create or test. Even still, I think they are the best of the AI companies. You just have to hold it really loosely. As in, I would not count on it as a main source of income. But as a supplement, they are great.