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- I asked for inspiring post about robbing orphanage and i am laughing soo hardby djvu97
- > What topic do you want to write about?
Robots suck, the future is cheap human Labour
> Oops! Our thought leadership engine is experiencing technical difficulties. Please try again.
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by bArray - Hello, I'm the creator of LinkedIn CringeBot 3000.
The "Oops..." error message some of you were getting was because my Anthropic credit ran out in the middle of the night my time and I needed to refill it. We should be good going forward.
CringeBot uses Claude Sonnet 4.6 as the main LLM (though after you have generated an output you can hit the "Try DeepSeek" button to see how DeepSeek would answer the same prompt).
One interesting wrinkle. As far as I can tell, Sonnet 4.6 is the last Anthropic model to offer a "temperature" setting. Temperature controls how random or predictable the model's word choices are, which is useful for tuning the outputs. Newer Anthropic models don't seem to have this option.
There are two prompt categories at work under the hood. A general system prompt that applies to all the outputs and 8 separate "style prompts" that correspond to the 8 different cringe styles. Refining these has been the hardest part of the project.
by allcharm - Well, it certainly isn't wrong
"Your browser should not have to negotiate a certificate chain the length of a CVS receipt"
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by snarfy - Very nice. I thought it wasn't going to save a "You Go Girl" style story about "My Dick", but it turned it into a conference anecdote with a powerpoint slide about Richard III. Hilarious.by fluxusars
- I left LinkedIn long time ago. I'm now a proud member of ShlinkedInby djfobbz
- Oh boy.
The "Request a Day off Button" is basically alert("NO"), which would indicate that functionality's probably been around since Day 1.
by 220hertz - Excellent.
Though many follow a shorter sentence style.
Like this.
To go on and on about what they're going on about.
by ricardo81 - Paragraphs are old.
Brevity is the new thing.
Make it short. (Lift, bro.)
by ssl-3 - I can’t stand the current trend in social media posting.
It’s not writing, it’s crap.
A few sentences.
Alone.
Incorrect grammar.
Not sentences, just phrases.
You’re supposed to think it has more impact.
It doesn’t.
If you can’t be bothered to write your own words on social media, then just don’t post.
by efitz - Oh jeez, I cannot wait for the Words. Standing. Alone. trend to be over, it makes me want to hurl.
It sorta made sense when it was clever and the words actually made sense both alone or together, but now that it's become something every two-bit marketroid aims for, they force it even when it doesn't really work, and the result is atrocious.
Makes me yearn for pet rocks. At least that fad knew it was dumb.
by myself248 - The problem isn't this, its enough people actually consuming it. These things always follow money first. Blame those people and appeal to them if you think it will change something, not venting off here among folks who are hardly the main source of this.
No, I don't have the solution for this age of dumb. It used to be that people were ashamed of how primitive they are, now they celebrate it as openly as possible and non-trivial amounts of similar folks follow.
by kakacik - LinkedIn shows me there are whole parts of our industry I never work with.
Long time programmers saw striver kids replaced computer kids. But their level of competency in technical companies is generally high. On the other side of the fence though is “the industry” which now employs a large part of the general population. And frankly they aren’t very smart in combination with not being a part of computer culture.
This has shown up on LinkedIn as “programmer influencers” who write in an extremely immature and unprofessional way, while also not saying anything interesting or smart. They write in ways I’ve never seen people write and it’s not AI or social media.
- People add dramatic carriage returns because it forces you to click the "Expand content" button, and the algorithm rewards that as a positive signal.by rickcarlino
- I like the term broetry.
https://fenwick.media/rewild/magazine/dead-broets-society-be...
- Important to remember that this style of writing originates well before the AI era. It's called direct mail marketing. It's the same style of writing you'd read when you got your physical junk mail from your physical mailbox and made the mistake of opening it.by wyclif
- I think the cringiest are people talking about their cancer or their divorce, and how it helped them realize an insight about B2B sales.by iamwil
- That... happens???by sleight42
- Too bad the thought leader is spewing 500 Internal Server Error. "Oops! Our thought leadership engine is experiencing technical difficulties. Please try again." isn't something I'm proud to post to Slack.by oefrha
- Try Kagi translate to LinkedInby RachelF
- I created a similar tool a year ago -> https://infiniteutils.com/internet/linkedin-post-generatorby fasouto
- A genuine question for the people here, I am just a college student so maybe I am missing something, but does anybody actually browse through linkedin? The only times I actually open it up is when either I did something that I would like to remember when I update my Resume at a later date, or when my friends text me to open it up and like their post :)
- When I see people post on LinkedIn, I stop taking them seriously. Because they’re spending time and energy well spent elsewhere, posting into a meaningless haze of obligatory connections.by jorisw
- Linkedin used to be good(ish).
It's offering was: "Talking about my CV/resume and engaging with potential employers have to be so stiff, corpo and outdated. Why can't it be more casual and easy to do like a Facebook Bio but still usable? Also, business cards suck and get lost. Another thing, working in <insert industry> is demanding and going to networking events is awkward and too full on. I wish I could maintain connections and have occasional conversations with people and actually remember who they are"
This worked for a while. In 2012 to 2015 getting jobs entirely via recruiters and conversational interactions on LinkedIn often led to interviews and other things. Then they started needing to make money, so adverts became a thing, the premium became a thing, then marketing departments caught up and started aggressively promoting crap, then later influencers arrived, and now AI. It's a death by 1000 cuts, it's fundamentally made out of low-stakes dishonestly from people just trying to keep their career going. But the end state is that it's probably the most dishonest social media platform to date. When you have Instagram and Facebook to compare it to, that's quite an achievement.
by bloqs - The trick here is to have connections that follow and like content that is worth following, ever since connecting with some peers in the database space, my feed is filled with things like new research, C++ performance optimizations, and the like, instead of management fables and feel good stories.
- Startup guy in cybersecurity here. If u plan to start a company/business/whatever, LinkedIn is actually awesome.
Connected with the CTO of a $1B Israeli company over LinkedIn and was on a plane to Telaviv a week later. They ended up acquiring my co.
My second startup partnered with the worlds largest ed tech co in cybersecurity (with their head of learning dev) off the back of a cold our reach on LinkedIn ..
If u learn to not be super fragile and bothered by all the cringe content .. it’s basically ur personal M&A firm. Gives u tremendous leverage for partnering, sales, intros without needing some fancy old boys network.. or startup incubator bs
- Most people randomly accept invitations on LinkedIn: "We're both humans, so I felt we should connect!".
But if you actively prune / curate WHO you add to your LinkedIn, you end up with a feed that is genuinely useful.
What you do need to know is WHY you want to use LinkedIn. It could be to find your next job, finding potential customers, or just keeping up to date with <INDUSTRY>.
by nip - When I'm bored and Tiktok brain rot isn't enough, I sometimes scroll through LinkedIn to see what happened in my network. The most interesting events to me is "oh, that guy has been at <company> for <number> years now, cool" and "ah that guy got a new job, how nice"... and then I go to bed. :Dby Izmaki
- While I agree that most of the feed is filled with useless posts, for some business sectors it actually contains useful posts.
I work in the European energy market sector and LinkedIn is one of the to go places to catch up with developments in the markets, the latest the analyses, and upcoming events. And some posts are actually good, you just need to filter out the rest. I wish there would be a better platform for this specific content (maybe I'm simply missing it) but for now, I find it there.
Coming from a computer science background and kinda accidentally ended up in energy markets, I was surprised that LinkedIn is the place for this content I(in contrast to the computer science field).
by komape - Linkedin is just glorified contact list. People lose their email addresses, change emails with a job, lose phone numbers, move countries, stop using social networks, but usually keep using same Linkedin profile over decades.
Also in many social situations such as expos, meetups and such asking for a personal whatsapp or phone number can be a cringeworthy especially if you actually want to followup with some business proposal or solicit your services / asking for referal / etc.
At the same time 99.9% of people will be okay to connect on Linkedin and you will have that +2% trust boost that can be sufficient to make sure your message wont be ignored.
So Linkedin is really worth it as long as you are not using it as social network.
by SXX