András Ferencz

PontKom 2026 · a conversation · in Hungarian

Do what
you can’t.

Freelancing and AI in 2026, honestly. Not “become a freelancer”: know that you have a choice.

On stage · PontKom 2026

Târgu Mureș, live.

A conversation with students in Târgu Mureș (Marosvásárhely) about freelancing, AI and choosing your own path. I’m a software engineer: I started as a freelancer, grew a studio to a team of 10+, and today I build apps as one engineer with AI.

András Ferencz, software engineer, speaking at PontKom 2026 in Târgu Mureș, his name on the slide behind him
András Ferencz presenting his talk on freelancing and AI to students in Târgu Mureș (Marosvásárhely)

The slides · 40 · in Hungarian

The deck, live.

Click the slides, then → and ← · O every slide

The game from the talk

Freelancer Sprint.

From fresh graduate to agency owner, on your phone.

  • Collect contacts, pitch them, build the project, send the invoice: the work from the talk, as a game.
  • At $10K you choose: stay a freelancer, or open an agency. Then a whole city opens.
  • Ten acts, the lessons from the talk along the way, and a scoreboard.
  • No account: a name is enough. In English or Hungarian.
Play Freelancer Sprint
Freelancer Sprint on a phone: the university studio, its desks and the upgrade pads
What can one person do today?

The line has moved.

2019

10+

people. That is what it took my company to serve serious clients.

2026

1 + AI

Not the same thing. But the line sits somewhere else than it did a few years ago.

Gets cheaper
  • Basic coding. For everyone.
Doesn’t
  • Expertise
  • Judgment
  • Taking responsibility
  • A result that works
The freelance dip

Every freelancer meets the dip.

You leave the fixed salary. The first clients run out. The income gets irregular, and you ask yourself if you decided right. Then a system, referrals and returning clients. If you make it through: higher than where you started.

The freelance dip: a line that drops after leaving a salary, bottoms out, and climbs higher than it started.FIXED SALARYYou quit“Finally free!”The first clients run out“Did I decide right?”System · referrals · returning clientsHigher than where you started
The freelance dip. Hold on, and you end up higher than where you started.
If you take only five things home

Five things.

The talk's last slide, in English.

  1. 01You don't need permission to start.
  2. 02Communication is a professional skill.
  3. 03AI is leverage, not a career plan.
  4. 04You don't need a big company to be successful.
  5. 05Freedom comes with responsibility.

imperfect > nothing

Imperfect work that ships is worth more than perfect work that never gets finished. I tell myself this too.