u/ddxo_

Recent post stating contracting market is picking up and more Outside roles are showing up. Just wanted to understand other contractors positions and how they are finding the current market.

For contractors who are still in contract:

Inside/Outside

Contract Duration - how long you have been with current client, how long is left on current contract and if you see scope for extension

Day rate

Role/Sector you work in

For contractors who are out of contract:

How long have you been out of contract?

Have you had many interviews/chats with recruiters?

What are you doing with your free time? I.e learning new skills, enjoying time off, side projects etc

Curious to understand what type of things (tools, practices etc) people are using AI for in their day to day workflow (I’m a Full stack engineer, predominately Microsoft tech stack) and the type of work you are building with it.

I.e Cursor, Microsoft CoPilot, Claude Code, ChatGPT. How are you using these day to day and explicitly what for? I.e refactoring, writing tests. Just looking to understand tooling, workflows, how things are setup, project structure, useful prompts, CLI commands, creating own agents, tools used to create, purpose, guardrails and examples of applications being built and how your day to day has changed.

Curious to understand what type of things (tools, practices etc) people are using AI for in their day to day workflow (I’m a software engineer) and the type of work you are building with it.

I.e Cursor, Microsoft CoPilot, Claude Code, ChatGPT. How are you using these day to day and explicitly what for? I.e refactoring, writing tests. Just looking to understand tooling, workflows, how things are setup and examples of applications being built and how your day to day has changed.