Where Is Consulting Going - Will AI Impact It?

Recently Christine Carragee brought up a post where someone was talking about the impact of AI on consultants and freelancers.

Christine has been working in the consulting space both with her own company as well as for others. So I wanted to get her perspective on how she sees the consulting world changing.

Also, she brought up pricing and pricing per value, so we'll likely discuss that as well!

[VnoteAI]

Thanks for the call out Christine Carragee! Fun to hear about people creating something clear when your brain would otherwise be shuffling ideas from "50 disc" CD player of thoughts.

[dwm]

Christine, the word ‘lumpy’ is a wonderful descriptor for consulting income. It makes me think of my dad describing cycling in slightly hilly terrain - lumpy.

[tomastruchly]

I love the "last mile" issue presentation when it comes to purely AI generated content. Therefore as mentioned only very few such solutions are deployed to Production. When it comes to IT consultants they are usually brought for short term (up to 1 year) when expertise / experiences are needed lacking in the core team. The demands are high as they tend to be very expensive. The issue is they come, do the work & leave. So it may become really difficult to do certain adjustments to the solution afterwards. Doing fine documentation during the development can help however not many companies are willing to pay the consultant's high rate to do it.