About three years ago now, a longtime potboiler client emailed me: "We're moving general translation to AI. Rates are dropping 40% across the board." I read that line twice. Then I did the maths on what a 40% cut would do to my business. It wasn't survivable. Most translators are living this right now - rates in freefall, machine output good enough for general text, and a client base that no longer sees the difference between "translated" and "translated well." Here's what I didn't do: panic,...