Reverse Centaurs, Duo, finding work and more – notes from 9th September 2026
Posted by Paul Silver
On the 9th September, 15 freelancers met in the beer garden of the Battle of Trafalgar to talk all things tech and self employment.
This is some of what we talked about:
- Good and bad uses of AI in the workplace
- AI affecting motivation
- Cory Doctorow talk on Reverse Centaurs
- iPhone Duo
- Canonicalisation using AI
- PHP Sussex talks
- Finding work since Trump’s war kicked off
- Missing investigatory work due to AI vs being happy not having that work to do
- AI as a new industrial revolution (or not)
- Using AI behind the scenes to help vs putting it in people’s faces
- Financial things – children going to university, SIPPs, ISAs
- The joy of clearing your mortgage
- The stress of startups
- Training your own small language models
- Getting to launch
- Aging French cars
- Brighton Comic Con
- Getting back into reading
Thanks to everyone who came along and made it a very interesting evening!