I think a lot of freelancers are feeling this but don’t want to say it: the work they used to rely on is getting harder to sell. If you code or design, you’ve probably had a client ask why something should take a week when AI can produce a version in an afternoon. The AI version might be bad. You might spend longer fixing it than building it yourself. But it still changes what the client thinks the work is worth. That’s the problem with selling basic websites, boilerplate code or quick logos. Clients are starting to see those things as cheap and easy, even when they aren’t. I don’t think coding or design is going away. I do think knowing how to build something is becoming less of an advantage on its own. A non-technical person can now get surprisingly far with AI. Meanwhile, plenty of developers can build a decent product but have no idea how to find customers for it. I think that second gap deserves more attention. Personally, I’d put more effort into learning marketing and sales alongside the technical work. Who needs this? How do you reach them? Why would they pay for it? And I mean learning the basics properly, not just asking ChatGPT to write a sales pitch. You don’t have to become an expert at everything. But if your entire offer is “give me a task and I’ll build it,” I think the next few years could be rough. Has anyone here actually lost a client or had their rates pushed down because of AI? I’m curious how much of this people are seeing in their own work.   submitted by   /u/asifide2 [link]   [comments]