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Freelancers and contractors should price work based on value delivered to the client, not time or effort spent — a principle that holds true regardless of AI acceleration.
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Phonics asks one of the most practically urgent questions of the AI era: how should contractors price their work when AI lets them deliver in minutes what used to take days? Scott's answer is unequivocal — price on value delivered, exactly as you always should have. He notes that this was the right answer long before AI arrived; time-based billing was always a trap that incentivised inefficiency. Wes agrees, noting that hourly arrangements only make sense for ambiguous, open-ended retainers where the scope is genuinely unknown. If someone is hiring you to deliver a defined outcome, how long it takes you is irrelevant to what you should charge — your investment in tooling, agents, and expertise is what makes you faster, and that's your competitive advantage, not your billable hours. The hosts do acknowledge one genuinely new wrinkle: the cost of AI tokens. Wes muses that at some point, a freelancer's invoice might legitimately include a line item for thousands of dollars of token spend, in the same way a contractor might bill for materials.
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