How are people getting freelance work in AI right now? I’m an AI Engineer with \~1.5 years of experience and recently I’ve been spending time building with RAG systems, multi-agent workflows, retrieval optimization, and LLM applications. One thing I’m trying to understand is how people actually find freelance opportunities in this space. Are most projects coming from: \- Upwork / freelancing platforms? \- Open-source contributions? \- LinkedIn / X networking? \- Startup communities? \- Building in public? \- Referrals? I’m less interested in generic web dev work and more curious about AI engineering projects (agents, RAG, automation, internal copilots, etc.). Would love to hear how people got their first few projects and what worked for them. fit. submitted by /u/abhiramputta [link] [comments]