alt Hacker NewsManuals have been machine-translated for ages, well before algorithms were anywhere close to ready for the task. No change there.
>a limited amount of diplomatic communiques
With zero data to support it, I'd bet good money the vast majority of semi-professional translators (that is, those not employed by publishers but still making some money off of their work) work on fiction, translating comics, subtitles, etc.
Actually, come to think of it, mixed media like those will be the last where machine translation will be able to fully take over humans, just because the text doesn't contain the entire relevant context for the job.
> not employed by publishers
Full time professional, 20 years of experience.
Keep in mind that 99% of translators are freelance. Translating something takes only a fraction of the time it takes to write the original, so publishers only have full time project managers and editors and hire translators per job as needed.
Engines like Deepl do give very good results on some single sentences. After all, they are huge databases of previous human translations, they are bound to nail it here and there. Where it falls apart is in keeping a good average and a consistent voice, so either you leave it all as messy AI sludge or you rewrite it substantially (at which point it's a glorified dictionary)