More Powerful Than Ever, (can't find work)

A designer who has worked in tech since 2004 - founder and HTML/CSS specialist - explains that AI tooling has recently let them become effectively full‑stack: they can brand, design, build, and deploy entire products alone. Despite the expanded skillset and faster output, inbound work has dried up, cold outreach fails, and they are reducing offers to posting coupons on Twitter. They emphasize concrete capabilities (end‑to‑end product delivery, partnership with engineers) and even offer to do design or builds in exchange for referrals.

They list four goals: use their experience as evidence of a trend, attract any founders who need design help, solicit advice on how multi‑disciplinary designer‑builders should package themselves, and find others with the same problem for reassurance. They propose four possible explanations for the mismatch between capability and demand: a weak market overall; demand evolving but not increasing value for this combo; hiring and billing systems that still expect narrowly defined roles; or signaling mistakes in how they present themselves. They invite contact and point to pieratt.com for examples.