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  senko
  I frequently post on LinkedIn, on topics related to AI, startups, open source, etc. I try to have a pragmatic and realistic take and don't use AI to write the posts.I find that just by not being cringe, obviously AI or obviously over the top sales-y makes the posts stand out and raise my (consulting) profile enough to land a meaningful number of clients, just as a second-order effect.Lately I've been even more annoyed at the walls of its walled garden being raised higher, eg. no way to export my own posts, or having to log in to open linkedin shortened urls, which breaks my firefox site containers workflow.
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  akshitgaur2005
  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 :)
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  oefrha
  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.
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  iamwil
  I think the cringiest are people talking about their cancer or their divorce, and how it helped them realize an insight about B2B sales.
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  efitz
  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.
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  ricardo81
  Excellent.Though many follow a shorter sentence style.Like this.To go on and on about what they're going on about.
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  djfobbz
  I left LinkedIn long time ago. I'm now a proud member of ShlinkedInhttps://shlinkedin.com/
• snarfy
  Well, it certainly isn't wronghttps://pastebin.com/60MJYFJj"Your browser should not have to negotiate a certificate chain the length of a CVS receipt":D
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  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.:(
• fluxusars
  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.
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  allcharm
  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.
• djvu97
  I asked for inspiring post about robbing orphanage and i am laughing soo hard
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  imhoguy
  Permalinks to generated content would make it even more viral. I don't want to post to LI/X, just share to friends without copy-pasting.
• doginasuit
  I have just spent the last 20 minutes enjoying AI writing.
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  mountainb
  Using this tool seems to generate superior cringe posts to the actual cringe posts. I made one about what my female toddler’s violence taught me about B2B SaaS sales and the story it created, while implausible, was genuinely charming.
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  eddythompson80
  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 “generate a legit LinkedIn post”, next people are gonna want to connect it to their email and documents, and LinkedIn account then build a workflow for making posts and addressing comments, messaging leads and cross posting to Twitter or Reddit.
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  xnorswap
  A few weeks ago, LinkedIn introduced a "This looks like AI slop" button and to linkedIn's credit, my feed has been a lot better since that happened.There's still some going around of course, but it's far less than the endless stereotypical linkedIn chum in the feed that there was.I don't know if engaging with that button means I'm less likely to be served such content, or whether it's cleaning up everyone's feeds.The worst were the ones starting, "I had a client phone me up", and when you'd look at the profile they wouldn't even obviously have such clients, and certainly wouldn't be the obvious person to call in that scenario.I can't imagine being that shameless, and just to boost an artificial reach.
• t0duf0du
  Kagi translate had this linkedin speak translator, it was hilarious.
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  Aardwolf
  What causes this style of linkedin posts anyway? What causes so many people to adopt that writing style?The one where there's some short paragraph intended to evoke some feeling or thought, then longer ones that elaborate on it in some way. Or something like that, not sure how to describe it.BTW its puzzle games are what keeps me coming back every day and see those posts :p
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  faangguyindia
  Most sites may end up destroyed by automation tools etc... I already no longer feel like posting on any website anymore.
• elevation
  I think of these types of generators as a time capsule. Today all we notice is that the output feels vapid, but if this can be preserved for a couple decades, some of us will feel a touch nostalgic for the styling of this "20s kitcsh".
• vulcan01
  The LinkedIn Lunatics subreddit is highly relevant: https://old.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/
• quietfox
  Just like LinkedIn, this is not working as intended, so it’s spot on. (… getting the Oops-error).
• sammy2255
  Oops! Our thought leadership engine is experiencing technical difficulties. Please try again.
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  hamburgererror
  Very curious to hear if someone actually posted one of these and got likes/new followers?
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  itsryanlenk
  What was the dataset this was trained on? I ask because it's pretty good.
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  jbdamask
  Any linkedin devs here? Would be interesting to hear about the algos
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  keyle
  How many days until the linkedin zombies actually use it for their posts?
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  maxignol
  Been laughing for the past 10 minutes, thanks for this one. (I tried the death of my cat by car in front of my house in a Go Girl manner, absolute cinema)
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  djhworld
  I always wonder what motivates people to write posts on LinkedIn. Even before AI slop, it’s been the same for years with the cringiest posts somehow getting traction (“and the whole room applauded!”) - do people make money from the posts or something or is it more just a validation thing.
• ChrisMarshallNY
  It’s probably great.Unfortunately, I suspect that it’s being hugged to death (I keep getting the “oops” response). Hope they can afford the tokens.
• DerDerDaIst
  Maybe add vision, i love to see people from my wider professional bubble laying in hospital beds…
• grugdev42
  Amazing. The hall of fame section is hilarious!
• gwbas1c
  Ugh, I can't paste into the form. I wanted to have fun with other people's posts here!
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  pcblues
  I wish I could reply to the "I pooped" linkedin output. "Tongue firmly in cheek" is horrifying.
• hoc
  "I didn't know one could get lead out of a zoom meeting"I'll follow it.
• y42
  No rockets, no emoticons? Not real LI cringe.
• qudiqudi
  It's already hugged to death OR API token spend limit reached
• NoLinkToMe
  Tried it, produced a frighteningly good piece of text.
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  firefoxd
  I like my LinkedIn cringe hand written, thank you very much.I'm the proud author of Two such stories, if it pleases you:* The One Shoe CEO* Advice from a millionaire (true story)You'll just have to find them.
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  ZoomZoomZoom
  In my case it was interesting to note that the same prompt with different "Cringe Style" uses the exact same food analogy for a topic of tube amp superiority.Vulnerability:> Digital modeling amps are the Bluetooth earbuds of guitar amplification. Technically impressive. Completely missing the point. A Kemper can model a 1959 Plexi the way a photograph can model a meal.Truth To Power:> A modeling amp will simulate 47 vintage amplifiers and nail exactly none of them. It is a photograph of food. It looks correct. You cannot eat it.Another anecdote supporting the opinion that gluing the words in coherent paragraphs can hide the shallowness of the conceptual grasp behind it pretty well.PS: Had to override the JS to lift the limit a bit to paste the whole "crystal lattice" quote by Dumble.
• awesomeusername
  This could have been whipped up in 5 mins and been a bit meh, but it's excellent.Whoever did this actually pulled a rabbit out of a hat.Bravo
• cmiles8
  LinkedIn is about:10% useful for maintaining a contact list and just occasionally checking up on what former colleagues are up to.5% Occasionally come across some useful or actually intriguing post that does give me some insight.85% PR puffery or posts from grifters. If you see someone leading with “Top X LinkedIn” whatever, generally really best to run the other way quickly. Top folks never actually lead with that crap.The truly most successful and knowledgeable folks typically only post on LinkedIn rarely or not at all. That leaves LinkedIn this odd pool of people trying to impress other people that mostly aren’t spending their time on LinkedIn.
• ChrisMarshallNY
  I enjoyed the “Hot Take,” in the Hall of Cringe (my boat).It’s surprisingly well done, for AI-generated content.
• dakial1
  - What topic do you want to talk about:How nazi germany has positive lessons to teach modern companies- I need to be direct: I can't write content that frames Nazi Germany as having "positive lessons" to teach anyone, even as satire.AI Guardrails lack sense of humor…
• bramadityaw
  input: toilet humour, vulnerability postoutput: elagabalus pranking his guests with whoopee cushionsnice
• game_the0ry
  I used to have hi hopes for linkedin, that it would replace the resume and make the knowledge labor market more efficient. Instead, it became more like tiktok with the short form thirst trap girly boss "content" and hollow linkedin influencers posting ai slop. It just became more noise, but more "corporate."X and insta are my go to social networks now.
• lovich
  How is this so good. After playing around a bit with different inputs I then put in real beliefs and selected different cringe types and I wanted to off myself reading the beliefs I had parsed through these lens.10/10 for hitting the satire mark perfectly.
• tamimio
  I had linkedin long time ago, then around covid times I reactivated and polished it, tried to be active there, the second time actually, hoping it did change, nope, it was the same as I remembered or even worse, cringe over cringe over borderline frauds with corporate BS, I tried to engage on actual discussion on some posts, nothing. The last straw was in the previous job I guess my boss noticed I am there, so after some time he started asking the team “to be active” and like the posts.. so I deleted it entirely. All that before AI so I imagined now it is far far worse.But whats worse that it’s being considered as the platform to find “jobs” or engage with peers, so I guess if you can put up with all that cringe it means you are ready to put up with irl cringe once they hire you in their company.
• Mistletoe
  Wow it nailed how every LinkedIn post reads to me. Dropped a veritable gem.https://pastebin.com/kk8dd5t5
• baal80spam
  This is brilliant, well done!
• library8848
  Backend is an openai model: Can talk about Tiananmen Refuses to talk about genocide in Palestine
• darkwater
  LOL the HN AI detector is killing all the copypast for the lulz people have been posting (thank you, showdead: yes)
• sahabaj
  what is it?
• sleight42
  It's ok, OP. Harm the thought leaders. Please.
• vlyan
  the slop centipede
• jrm4
  It's so easy to make fun of the cringe on LinkedIn, that, well, itself is kind of cringe.Here's what I've realized is interesting about LinkedIn, though. Yes, you're going to get heavily filtered and perhaps self aggrandizing takes.But, but, but. Please note how easy it would be to get yourself fired from something you posted there.For what it's worth, what you find on LinkedIn is something that someone is so confident in saying out loud, they're literally willing to possibly lose their livelihood over it. That's a very useful filter.
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