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Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/21/ai-is-getting-pricey-but-relief-is-coming-but-not-for-you/5244358

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Article URL: https://extenddb.org/

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Article URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/

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Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/former-us-execs-plead-guilty-to-aiding-tech-support-scammers/

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Article URL: https://github.com/amatsuda/rubish

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Background. I'm a solo dev. I used to just bid contract jobs at around 25% less than where I used to work. So back in 2008 I would bid $75k to go solo on a job I knew my former employer would charge $100k for. I switched to an hourly rate around 2012 because I was tired of re-negotiating over every new feature (or what constituted a feature). At that point I just did an estimate, backwards from my job rate, and settled on $75/hr. Since then I've increased to $300/hr.

But even back then, in 2012, I knew freelance consultants who specialized in something like Salesforce setups, who would come into someone's office and charge $450/hr to be there.

Is $300/hr stupidly cheap now? I also know which code I could write with LLMs but I never check in LLM code. I could, but that would be cheating. I spend the hours writing code by hand.

I'd like to hear from anyone in a similar position.

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Article URL: https://news.sky.com/story/uk-faces-economic-catastrophe-unless-it-adapts-to-young-people-rewired-by-smartphones-13547229

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Article URL: https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/05/pip-261-dependency-cooldowns/

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Article URL: https://trulayer.ai/

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Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2026/05/20/the-software-coordination-tax-why-your-40-engineer-team-is-shipping-like-25/

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Article URL: https://meetingcpp.com/blog/items/Exploring-ref-qualifiers-in-Cpp.html

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Article URL: https://github.com/Zuhaitz-dev/URPL

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Article URL: https://github.com/charnam/ClasmeraSpace

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Article URL: https://www.startupblink.com/startupecosystemreport

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Article URL: https://github.com/DimwitLabs/AI-DECLARATION.md

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Article URL: https://blog.platformatic.dev/destino-doom-terminal-nodejs-ffi

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Article URL: https://tinyopsstudio.com/congress-disclosure-now-csco-source-screen

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Article URL: https://symbolic.software/pdf/gnmx-01.pdf

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