The AI tools on your portfolio are lowering your rate
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When a client asks a freelancer "do you use AI?", the honest-but-fatal answer is "yes, I use ChatGPT." You just told them the thing they are paying you for is a $20 subscription they also have. Naming a cheap tool anchors your price to it — and anchoring is one of the better-established effects in negotiation research. But not every tool does this. The trick is to score each on one axis : when the client learns you use it, does the cost of replacing you go up or down? That sorts your whole…
1Key Takeaways
- When a client asks a freelancer "do you use AI?", the honest-but-fatal answer is "yes, I use ChatGPT." You just told them the thing they are paying you for is a $20 subscription they also have.
- Naming a cheap tool anchors your price to it — and anchoring is one of the better-established effects in negotiation research.
- The trick is to score each on one axis : when the client learns you use it, does the cost of replacing you go up or down?
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3Why it matters
Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that when a client asks a freelancer "do you use AI?", the honest-but-fatal answer is "yes, I use ChatGPT." You just told them the thing they are paying you for is a $20 subscription they also have.
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