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Re: LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

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Post by suslik »

akshitgaur2005 wrote: post #33

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 :)

> but does anybody actually browse through linkedin?

Sometimes I do, reflexively, when I check my messages or some specific people. I get no value out of it. But I do know people who seriously use linkedin, as in read, post, comment, and message people.

Re: LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

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Post by Philip-J-Fry »

akshitgaur2005 wrote: post #33

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 :)

I open it to do the daily puzzles. But it means that I'm subject to 1 or 2 cringe posts before I get there.

Re: LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

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Post by throwaway91827 »

eddythompson80 wrote: post #24

Apps like that (a customizable system prompt with a token api endpoint) would become more common if the cost of tokens decreases. Current AI subscription providers have been trying to crack that nut with GPTs, skills, extensions, etc, but they have the n+1 problem. The scope is too much to do it securely and get value other than entertainment from it. If one could make a link to take you to a Claude.ai interface for…

I've never seen "the n+1 problem" used in a context like this, can you explain what that means? To me "the" n+1 problem is the one where you do your DB queries in a for loop instead of using joins or something like that: https://docs.sentry.io/product/issues/issue-details/performa...

Re: LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

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Post by weavie »

akshitgaur2005 wrote: post #33

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 :)

I get an occasional request from a friend who is trying to build a following to interact with their posts to boost their visibility. I'll go through, like a few then sit around for a while desperately trying to think of something non-generic to say in a comment, fail to think of anything and just add an "I agree" comment.

Re: LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

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Post by Izmaki »

akshitgaur2005 wrote: post #33

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'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 for years now, cool" and "ah that guy got a new job, how nice"... and then I go to bed. :D

Re: LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

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Post by bArray »

> 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.

:(

Re: LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

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Post by prox »

ssl-3 wrote: post #66
ricardo81 wrote: post #8

Excellent. Though many follow a shorter sentence style. Like this. To go on and on about what they're going on about.

Paragraphs are old. Brevity is the new thing. Make it short. ( Lift , bro.)

We talk about words here

insert 10 short one sentence life experiences about words

you can subscribe to my word salad workshop for $5

Re: LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

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Post by rightbyte »

ricardo81 wrote: post #69
ssl-3 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paragraphs are old. Brevity is the new thing. Make it short. ( Lift , bro.)

It would seem to be. Anyone under 35 seems to type things in multiple messages on message apps, rather than one :-)

I remember when SMS had a cost per message.

Re: LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

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Post by testycool »

suncemoje wrote: post #67
komape wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 t…

> most of the feed is filled with useless posts I, unsurprisingly, am making the same observations. Sometimes I do think about shipping a slim Chrome extension (~Ad Blocker) to classify and filter out useless content. Could make it a bit more bearable and useful.

I use LinkOff https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/linkoff-filter-and-...

It has a 'gentle mode' so you see what gets blocked.

I think it's thanks to it that I don't feel animosity towards LinkedIn anymore.

Re: LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

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Post by matherial »

nip wrote: post #57
akshitgaur2005 wrote: post #33

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 :)

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 .

You don't need to accept at random. I'm selective - I only connect with people I worked with or know well from the industry - and it's still 99% AI slop.

Part of the problem is the tech industry. There's plenty of people trying to get rich quick in tech and LinkedIn is essentially made for them. I don't see it as much in other fields where most people don't imagine themselves building unicorn AI startups with VC money and becoming obscenely rich.

It is a way to keep up with opinions about industry news, but at least for tech, I think this is all downstream of what's happening on "short-form" social media. It breaks on Twitter and then you get LLM-powered thought leadership on LinkedIn for the next two weeks.

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