Meeting Notes from 4th June 2025
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 4th June, 8 freelancers met in the Lord Nelson Inn, Brighton, to talk tech, self employment, and a fair amount of nonsense.
This is some of what we talked about:
- Working with APIs that don’t give you error messages is really awkward
- People losing their jobs to AI?
- Perplexity AI tool writing CRUD apps
- Working on old codebases is currently too hard for AI/LLMs
- How much fixing of AI code is there going to be in the near future?
- Potential clients who use the word “easy” too much are worth avoiding
- Heston Blumenthal and bipolar disorder
- Business bank account saga continues, now trying to open an account with fourth option
- What banks do you use?
- The many versions of The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
- Photoacoustics
- Trump’s new rules about ETFs and dividends to foreign investors may badly affect Vanguard and others
- SIPPs and pensions as a Director
- Ukraine’s drone strike within Russia
- The US Dollars recent drop in value
- Using Wise for non-Sterling payments
- Music mastering
Thanks to everyone who came along and made it a very enjoyable evening!