Notes from our freelancers meet up on 2nd July 2025
Posted by Paul Silver
On 2nd July, ten freelancers met in the Lord Nelson pub in Brighton to chat freelancing, tech, and anything that came to mind. This is some of the topics we covered:
- Wise payment system verification delays
- The heat
- Vibe coding drawbacks – feeling no code ownership when trying to debug
- People diversifying away from programming
- Developers who are fast but sloppy
- Jackfruit and Durian sweets
- Working around loved ones health problems
- Sky the slug serial killer
- Science fiction book recommendations
- Neuromancer coming to Apple TV
- Local characters and the bird whistle guy
- AI for Artists at Eagle Labs
- Trying to get small scale LLMs running on Azure
- Analysis using AI models
- Knowing how to leave work at work, or at least time for work and time for relaxing
- Writing Python and missing Rust
- Over pattern matching and under pattern matching
- Working on a new startup
- Gardening is better than DIY
Thanks to everyone who came along, especially Josh and Dave, it was great to see you after a long break.