Freelancers meeting notes from 6th May 2026
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 6th May, eleven freelancers met up in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar pub in Brighton to talk all things self employment, tech and a fair amount of nonsense too. This is some of what we talked about:
- Long term projects / working very part time for a client
- Using a Letter before Action when chasing overdue payments
- MCP & RAG – AI tooling
- OpenBrain
- Clearing houses
- Servers under attack
- Running local LLMs – LLM Fit (Brew), Ollama, LM Studio, Anything LM
- OpenClaw
- Adding guardrails around what AI does
- Demos at Brighton AI
- Hip dysplasia
- Football fun
- Classic literature
- Sailing
- Anti-drone technology
Thanks to everyone who came along and made it a very enjoyable evening.