1. AI's Impact on Freelance Work and Expectations
Companies feel more capable with AI, leading to less freelance work and drastically higher expectations where clients expect rapid delivery for high daily rates.
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0:38 · 2 October 2026
Why Freelancing Is Getting Tougher with AI
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2. Navigating the Unstable Freelance Market
Entering freelancing now means facing an unstable market where mastering the management of destroyed expectations is essential.
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Because now with AI, companies feel very capable and there's a lot less freelance work going around in the first place. And the work that's left for the folks watching us, the expectations are crazy because people are like, hey, I'm I'm you know, I'm paying you, you know, 1,000 bucks a day. Then just can you just use AI and ship it? So, if you want to go into freelancing right now, like number one, you're getting into a much more unstable market and and number two, you have to be a master of managing expectations.
Because what AI did, it's totally destroyed it. Destroyed expectations over employees in the first place, but I can't even imagine the pressure freelancers are under right now.