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On the flip side I’ve seen many projects go way over budget when a client is actively involved and introduces scope creep that turns into launch blockers. You learn quick to have strong contracts if doing fixed price bids.

Problem seems to be clients don’t know what they want early on and when they start to see progress they understand more what they were actually expecting. Obviously you’d try to get this out of them during project planning.

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This is so true, scope creep is real when the client actively gets involved

And when that happens it’s better to move the contract to hourly rather having it fixed price

But you are also right about having a strong contract

“Scope creep is real when the client gets actively involved”

Or when there are multiple stakeholders involved. It’s a never ending stream of making the logo bigger, then reducing the size.

I feel like this is where LLM's/agents could actually help a lot. I don't like all the hype, and think that long-term projects would be better off without heavily written LLM code in any form, but stitching together stuff for a client seems like the perfect use-case, as long as they understand it's not the final product.

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