Honestly the worst time to be job hunting is when recruiters spam you. The good ones just read the post and reply like a person.
Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
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Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
#282>I build production-ready TypeScript and Python systems that integrate LLMs into real workflows, with particular focus on RAG, agent orchestration
On a tangent, roughly nobody needs this skill. I don't know why some people think "LLM integration" is some kind of deep career specialization that's in high demand. Any ordinary generalist SWE can integrate LLMs into an application. It's literally just calling an API and doing some string concat.
When people say "AI skills" are in huge demand in the SWE world, it refers to being able to leverage LLMs to improve the speed of your regular software development, not literal AI integration. Don't brand yourself as an "AI engineer" unless you're targeting clueless seed-round founders or are a literal MLE; the bulk of the jobs aren't here.
Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep! They are rampant on Upwork. You could probably find a cell of them in a day if you wanted, just go looking for jobs with the 'crypto' tag, haha. They have offered me serious sums of money to "simply install RDP and give us access to your network". I imagine people desperate enough take them up on it too.
That... sounds lucrative, and exciting? Use an isolated network, snoop on what device is doing, learn a thing or two about what these threat actors are doing?
Unless done in collaboration with proper institutions, that would be playing with fire. Consequences from letting who-knows-who from who-knows-where do who-knows-what in your name can be life destroying. There are multiple cases about people in USA running laptop farms without asking questions and making good money, but one day ending up on a receiving end of federal prosecution.
Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
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At the very least, spamming this thread with a link to your slop product is tone deaf AF.
Might I point out that this entire thread is ridiculous?
It’s a bunch of people complaining about things they don’t actually control. The only logical move is to change perspective and go build something.
Yes, I will do pretty much whatever it takes to call attention to what I built. You call it “slop,” but I suspect you never bothered to look. Instead, you took the vibe of the thread — that people often post their own thing out of context — and applied it to someone making counterarguments.
In this case, I’ve built a lot of open-source software. A fair amount of it has been worked on by me for over five years. That includes real agent infrastructure: Hyperia, a local/self-owned agent control plane; N.U.T.S. services for crawling, embeddings/search, auth, tunnels, and backend glue; and a broader stack aimed at sovereign AI systems people can actually run, inspect, and control themselves.
That’s not slop.
It’s real code. It does real things. It is actually open source.
This place is supposed to be for people who build and hack. Not people who sit around blaming, sneering, and mistaking cynicism for taste. Trying to steer things back toward building and hacking is everyone’s job here. Being insulting is not.
Do better. Build better. Drop the fake empathy for things online.
Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
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I've gotten the north Korean wanting to use my upwork account... I'd have to create one first. But now the Nigerian "format" scammers are into job scams. I got an email that reeked and played along a bit. I was "hired" after a curiously simple interview via signal, and had to wait for my "supervisor" to come train me. Eventually I got the "boss" on the line to talk, he went absolutely postal when I asked if he was an…
> I've gotten the north Korean wanting to use my upwork account... I'd have to create one first. I've gotten that too, now that everyone ITT is talking about it. I had no idea what was going on with it at the time and ignored it. Amusing to know that there could be state actors behind it. The version I got explicitly suggested that I create such an account for the purpose if I don't already have one (I didn't, and of…
"format" is what Nigerian scammers call a playbook for each scam type. So a pig butchering "format", romance scam "format", inheritance scam "format", etc.
They offered to help me setup an Upwork account too. Tiresome creeps.
Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
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Reminds me of all the recruiters who reach out to me saying they're working on filling some engineer position but never say the company name, and when asked, they want to have a call. Stop wasting my time, STATE THE COMPANY UPFRONT AND AT THE TOP, preferably in the subject line
This is not in the recruiter's interest though, because you may just go past them and apply to the company directly, so they miss out on their revenue. I love picking apart a recruiter's emails, in a handful of cases I see the advert and I'm like "Oh yeah I used to work there". Go and React in a telecom company in NL near where I live? Yeah I set that up. No I don't want to go back, not unless they hire an actual tea…
> This is not in the recruiter's interest though, because you may just go past them and apply to the company directly, so they miss out on their revenue.
There's the definition of a redundant job, though I think nothing can beat SEO on this.
Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
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Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
#288Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand your point; what other type of messages are you saying should be acceptable as a response to a post about career troubles?
Someone posted an interest in a field in a who-wants-to-be-hired thread. A lot of people who investigate job openings aren't actually experiencing "career troubles", nor are they "desperate" as other comments noted. Again, we're talking about that thread, not this follow up submission. They then complained that someone spammed them and it got their hopes up (which is kind of strange, fwiw). Then they detailed their c…
I still don't understand your point. The comment you responded to says:
>As a general rule, if someone ever posts any kind of career troubles on any platform, the only correct responses should contain sympathy or a relevant career opportunity.
Do you disagree with that? Do you just disagree with the use of the phrase "career troubles"?
Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
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Speak for yourself, I’m voting this to the top.
Well, yeah, but spammers still aren't going to care. We are not talking about decent or reflective people here.
that was precisely my point: I care, we care, but sadly the spammers won't. disappointed to see it came off otherwise, I apologize.
to be clear: OP, I am rooting for you!
Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, yeah, but spammers still aren't going to care. We are not talking about decent or reflective people here.
The great benefit is, initially, to know that you're not alone. And indeed, the OP is very much not alone. The suffering is much greater when you think it's just you going through it; when you connect with others in the same boat, real solutions present themselves be they political or technical and together you have the strength to face it.
well, sure, and I support that...I was purely trying to address the realisticness(?) of the request that it not happen anymore. possibly the wrong forum, my bad.