[PostOnce]

Lots of different companies argue with the AI for some time before they call me, but they always call me.

They'll never be able to explain what they want to the AI, and even if they could, it couldn't solve the problem anyway.

Nevertheless I'm not going to be contracting much longer, I'm writing software by hand to compete with the garbage shat out of Claude's VibeCloaca. I already have customers, I just need to ... tune a few things before I scale, so that I don't have any customer support problems at scale. :)

[mancerayder]

Your contracting business is done because of AI competition, because money is drying, or because you're finding permanent alternatives due to being sick of it? There's more than one way to interpret your message, and I'm curious.

[PostOnce]

Sick to death of it. The work is still there.

I can only work so many hours in a day on a contract, but with a product, I can work 3 hours and sell it 200 times, or license it and make money forever.

My customers have said to me point blank "I hate SaaS" and paid me anyway. They've said everything is "so easy with GPT and all now", and paid me anyway.

I think I have a chance.

Maybe I'll be proven wrong and my AI-using competitors will eat my lunch.

Or maybe, I'll drown them and Claude in complexity and attention-to-detail.

We'll see.

[judahmeek]

I'd like to learn more about your current contracting process.

It sounds like you could use an apprentice to help handle things as a backup plan.