Welp, it's official.
I had to let go of a client today because they are *all-in* on the slop machines…Claude to be precise. They intend for it to be integral to all code going forward.
I told them I can't do it. I won't do it!
Which leaves me in a real bind because the one major client I have left simply isn't able to pay all of the bills. A real strain on my finances…yikes. 😕
Anyhoo…good news is I'm ready to contribute real senior Web Dev expertise to your next project! 😅 #FediHire
feld
in reply to Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) • • •you're leaving money on the table when you could be guiding Claude with your senior web dev experience
Good luck though, but a lot of people are going to be buying their homes with the money they made off the clients others decided to turn away
Moray
in reply to feld • • •feld
in reply to Moray • • •Benoît Régent-Kloeckner
in reply to feld • • •There is an excellent article (in French) I recently read about how wrong the "just a tool" line is. One point is about the conditions making gAI possible (including exploitation of workers and ressources concentration), another is about what it does to the way we organize. The latter point includes the fact that gAI can becomes mandatory, and this thread is a good example; especially your message framing as some kind of laziness objections to using gAI.
feld
in reply to Benoît Régent-Kloeckner • • •dude fired his client and then is complaining about not being able to pay the bills. Work wasn't even being taken away from him; he didn't lose his job to AI. It's a self inflicted wound.
These things remind me a lot of analog photographers who refused to learn the digital photography workflow, and then complained
Benoît Régent-Kloeckner
in reply to feld • • •feld
in reply to Benoît Régent-Kloeckner • • •maybe you're just being dense, but what you're proposing has nothing to do with this scenario. He is a 1099 contractor. It is quite illegal for them to dictate how he works or when he works as that would require he become a W2 employee.
They can't force him to use gen AI. They *can* ask him to make sure the codebase has all the useful breadcrumbs so it will work well with Claude or whatever. But then they cannot force him to use Claude to complete any tasks.
They literally cannot force him. He can just complete this ask, and then continue working as he normally would.