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I noticed something similar. Even non technical clients now come with technical requirements because they use chatgpt, and it's always a react app.

Poking client reqs is such a high value skill, most freelancers will just build what the client asks, "ok here's a react frontend with a postgres db and a crud app for your ecommerce website" instead of asking what the functional requirements are, maybe it can be a shopify thing, or just post it on amazon, or maybe a plain html app (optionally with js)

It can be valid to ask for a brick house if you know what the other ways to build a house are, but if you just asked chatgpt for a house plan and it said "bricks", because it's the most housey thing and you said ok because it rings a bell and sounds housey, having a dev that asks and tells you about wooden houses or steel beams or concrete is the best that can happen.

I appreciate when it happens the other way around, I go to a lawyer and tell them I want a corp, they start off assuming I know my shit, and after 5 minutes we are like, oh I don't want a corp


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