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Here’s a new testimonial from our member Dominika Spackova, who is a slow-business management consultant:
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“Is the rise of AI a threat or an opportunity for devs? Many fear that AI will replace human software engineers or make it harder for junior programmers to break into the field. But what if the truth is quite the opposite?,” writes Jan Javorek in the opening paragraph of his long-read article titled Empowered by AI: Why junior devs have the winning edge.
The text is full of solid insights and strong arguments against the popular notion that ChatGPT or GPT-4 will put junior and less capable developers out of business.
In informing about AI tools, we intentionally focus only on the most important ones, such as ChatGPT, GPT-4, Midjourney — or the latest innovation known as Auto-GPT.
Auto-GPT is an autonomous “AI agent” to which you assign a task in natural language and it will attempt to complete it. To do this, it uses API calls to ChatGPT (i.e. GPT-4 or GPT-3.5) to analyze the task, break it down into subtasks, or even debug its own code. It can also browse or search the Internet, or use other services to which it has access.
The project began as an open-source experiment on Github, but it has caused such a stir that it is now being hailed as a next big thing in AI. Services like this may soon fulfill a role of an autonomous researcher or assistant to whom you assign a simpler task, and they deliver a usable output in a short time.
Of course, there are still many bugs, but the charm of AutoGPT experiments cannot be denied. Developers can setup their own agent, while the public can try Auto-GPT on a limited basis on sites like AgentGPT or God Mode, or watch a video about it:
Our database of 400+ European freelance resources is already so vast that we rarely find a new extensive one that we have overlooked. The Freelance Informer based in the UK is one of them. Just scroll down their homepage to see the huge number of items published! They’re already on our radar, so expect to see their best pieces in our carefully curated freelance news(letters).
The latest MBO State of Independence in America 2022 report confirms that the U.S. freelance economy is growing stronger and more populous. It’s one of the few quality reports that is statistically representative and clearly distinguishes between Full-Time, Part-Time, and Occasional independents (aka freelancers). Here are some highlights:
See the full PDF report for details.
Useme has published a dry-but-useful article for companies about hiring international freelancers. The whole process is far from simple. Employers may need to comply with the laws of both countries (their own and those of the freelancers they hire), follow privacy rules, fill out special tax reports, prevent misclassification, and follow labor guidelines:
“For example, in Spain, freelancers are entitled to benefits, such as yearly paid time off, if they work primarily for one client.”
One notable takeaway, however, is that truly independent professionals who work with multiple international clients are likely to be much easier to hire and work with than full-time freelance contractors.
Here’s a new testimonial from our member Ivana Strakosova Hruba, who is a English-Spanish-Czech translator:
“Freelancing.eu helps me reach out to foreign clients without having to pay for any PPC campaigns or having to compete with large companies.”
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If you’re a writer or creator-storyteller of any kind, there’s a fantastic book about narrative structures used in everything from marketing to movies to novels to nonfiction to self-help books.
Its author, Steven Pressfield, titled it Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t after a piece of advice he got as a novice marketing creative, but it’s actually full of kindly wisdom and hard-to-find knowledge about storytelling.
A little more niche than Steven’s bestseller The War of Art, this book is a real gem and a lot of fun to read 💩
One would think that everything is known about procrastination, but the science is still evolving.
In a new episode of his popular science podcast, Huberman Lab, called Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort, Stanford neurobiology professor Andrew Huberman summarizes the latest science from the last 5 years and explains how dopamine works, why it's closely related to procrastination, and how to combat it.
Unlike the topic of how to improve eyesight, we're not including a short summary this time because this episode is really better listened to in its entirety. It's available on Spotify and YouTube — and as Huberman says, listeners have been asking a lot about procrastination:
By the way, Huberman was recently a guest on the JRE podcast, and in an amazingly candid interview, he discussed topics related to productivity and health.
Over the past year, freelance creatives have been given AI tools to bring their ideas to life in photorealistic quality. Here's a demonstration of what the combination of two state-of-the-art AI tools, GPT-4 and Midjourney, can look like in practice, with breathtaking results:
Adobe is now on the move with its new AI product Adobe Firefly, which has generated a lot of excitement among designers.