$500 in a week on AI, changing careers, baking soil – Notes from 8th April 2026
Posted by Hazlitt Eastman
On the 8th April, fifteen freelancers got together in the Battle of Trafalgar pub in Brighton to discuss self employment, startups, tech, new media, war and many other subjects.
Here is a summary of some of the discussions we had:
- If they can put a man on the moon, why don’t they put them all there!
- Using AR glasses with Samsung desktop to remote work
- I spent $500 in a week on AI
- Changing careers
- Ceasefire, but for how long
- Baking house plant soil to get rid of bugs
- Regression testing techniques
- How to get AI to tell you how to make nitro glycerine
- Suing rubbish builders
- Claude Code context planning
- Google AI Studio
- When will the fuel run out