Ask HN: What are independent software contractors doing now?
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?
Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
codingdave
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.
unified101
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.
gtirloni
Fixing vibe coded projects? Arguably requires more knowledge than building the usual CRUD app.
kypro
> It seems with AI people are just not willing to hire devs for their pet projects anymore? Not willing? Genuinely why would I? A dev is going to cost more, work slower and be less likely to give me exactly what I ask for. I don't mean to be blunt, but you need to look for something else to do imo. This isn't 2016.