Ask HN: What are independent software contractors doing now?

MMadmallard about 4 hours ago 2 comments

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The amount of opportunities I've found doing independent contracting for people in the last year or two has went from easily being able to find one or two leads a week to none at all for several months.

It seems with AI people are just not willing to hire devs for their pet projects anymore?

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unified101•11 minutes ago

Industry shift worth noting seems to be "If AI can do it, I don't need you". So all work available is - I can't get AI to do this. Help me do it.

codingdave•39 minutes ago

Legacy tech work. I get almost no calls for modern dev stacks, but I'm kept as busy fixing and modernizing legacy apps on legacy stacks, and helping to get their data moved to a modern environment.

I'm not drowning in calls or anything - but they come in often enough to keep me working.