Write or modify design specifications such as the metal contents and weights of items.

“Write or modify design specifications such as the metal contents and weights of items.” is a core task performed by Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers. Among the occupation's 30 rated tasks, workers place it 12th by importance (#19 most important). About 86% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Create artistic designs or performances. in Thinking Creatively

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 1.00. Automation potential label: T2.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Clean and polish metal items and jewelry pieces, using jewelers' tools, polishing wheels, and chemical baths. · importance 4.5
• Smooth soldered joints and rough spots, using hand files and emery paper, and polish smoothed areas with polishing wheels or buffing wire. · importance 4.5
• Create jewelry from materials such as gold, silver, platinum, and precious or semiprecious stones. · importance 4.5
• Cut and file pieces of jewelry such as rings, brooches, bracelets, and lockets. · importance 4.4
• Examine assembled or finished products to ensure conformance to specifications, using magnifying glasses or precision measuring instruments. · importance 4.4
• Make repairs, such as enlarging or reducing ring sizes, soldering pieces of jewelry together, and replacing broken clasps and mountings. · importance 4.4
• Compute costs of labor and materials in order to determine production costs of products and articles. · importance 4.3
• Position stones and metal pieces, and set, mount, and secure items in place, using setting and hand tools. · importance 4.3
• Grade stones based on their color, perfection, and quality of cut. · importance 4.3
• Select and acquire metals and gems for designs. · importance 4.2
• Buy and sell jewelry, or serve as agents between buyers and sellers. · importance 4.2
• Shape and straighten damaged or twisted articles by hand or using pliers. · importance 4.2
• Determine appraised values of diamonds and other gemstones based on price guides, market fluctuations, and stone grades and rarity. · importance 4.2
• Create new jewelry designs and modify existing designs, using computers as necessary. · importance 3.9

See all tasks on the Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Write or modify design specifications such as the metal contents and weights of items.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-23637}
}