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Fellow software consultants: how are you navigating billing these days? Assuming you’re more productive with LLMs, how do you ensure that you’re paid fairly for your skills?

Are you raising your hourly rate?

Are you embracing milestone/outcome based billing instead of billable hours?

I’m relatively new to consulting (around 2.5 years), and trying to navigate this myself.

In terms of job security, would you rather work on a product oriented team (focused directly on customers) or a platform team (building things for other engineers within the company)?

If a company were to do a layoff, for example, I’m not quite sure how they would prioritize.

Over the past few months, I’ve noticed a bunch of unexpected “likes” on my account. In my entire history on LinkedIn, I’ve quite literally never clicked the like button (intentionally, at least). Yet for some reason, I’m consistently seeing a couple posts per week that I’ve supposedly liked. The posts are completely random things, most of which I’ve never even seen before. And the likes appear on my public profile for everyone else to see.

My first instinct is that it’s a UI/UX issue. Specifically, I think my thumb might be grazing the like button as I scroll.

I’m tempted to think it’s a more nefarious variation of my instinct above (e.g. a subtle UI/UX decision designed to increase engagement on the platform). But I know that’s unfair (don’t attribute to malice, etc).

Considering I’ve never experienced this type of issue on other social media sites, I thought I’d bring it up. Has anyone else noticed this behavior, specifically on LinkedIn?

Edit: spelling