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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.
I want to do this but I can't get myself to do it, I guess I'm too self-aware. Does this come naturally for you to do or did you have to push your self hard? How did you start?
You're a good follow there.
To escape the walled garden, I've ran a script to download all posts (JS to scroll down my feed, wait for the lazy loading, click on all "more..." links, wait for the lazy loading again, everything in a loop, then download the entire thing when there are no more posts). Then ran another script to convert those to blog posts, then posted them on my personal site.
> I frequently post on LinkedIn
I do, too.
My rule of thumb for anything longer than two paragraphs is publish on my personal blog first and then use LinkedIn's scheduling feature to post it in the future (LinkedIn gives you a 3 month window, but you can reschedule indefinitely)
Do you also run a blog?
I think you can get your posts out as part of a data export, if you request one. I just did that and I can see my (very few) posts in the Shares csv.
Why are you putting content on such platforms? Honestly.
Do you realize that you are giving content for free to an already enshittified and closed platform?
Open a blog where everyone can read freely without to have an account in one of the worst platforms out there.
Or is it to be popular that you post there?
Why are you engaging sincerely on a platform created for boot licking?
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 :)
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.
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.
I think the cringiest are people talking about their cancer or their divorce, and how it helped them realize an insight about B2B sales.
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.
Excellent.
Though many follow a shorter sentence style.
Like this.
To go on and on about what they're going on about.
I left LinkedIn long time ago. I'm now a proud member of ShlinkedIn
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.
Well, it certainly isn't wrong
"Your browser should not have to negotiate a certificate chain the length of a CVS receipt"
:D
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.
> 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.
:(
I asked for inspiring post about robbing orphanage and i am laughing soo hard
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.
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.
I have just spent the last 20 minutes enjoying AI writing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kagi translate had this linkedin speak translator, it was hilarious.
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
Most sites may end up destroyed by automation tools etc...
I already no longer feel like posting on any website anymore.
Just like LinkedIn, this is not working as intended, so it’s spot on. (… getting the Oops-error).
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".
Oops! Our thought leadership engine is experiencing technical difficulties. Please try again.
Very curious to hear if someone actually posted one of these and got likes/new followers?
The LinkedIn Lunatics subreddit is highly relevant: https://old.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/
What was the dataset this was trained on? I ask because it's pretty good.
How many days until the linkedin zombies actually use it for their posts?
Any linkedin devs here? Would be interesting to hear about the algos
Wow it nailed how every LinkedIn post reads to me. Dropped a veritable gem.
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)
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.
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.
Amazing. The hall of fame section is hilarious!
I wish I could reply to the "I pooped" linkedin output. "Tongue firmly in cheek" is horrifying.
Maybe add vision, i love to see people from my wider professional bubble laying in hospital beds…
Ugh, I can't paste into the form. I wanted to have fun with other people's posts here!