thus, by definition, all LLMs are bullshitters

  >The person next to you, who is willing to fake the demo and declare victory on LinkedIn even before the launch, is going to look more successful than you.

This is because thinking, communication, and collaboration are extremely valuable.

- bullshit jobs

- enshittification

- kubernetes being a psyop

- tech landscape was best exactly during his career peak and has gone down since

Yet, the biggest bullshittery, is every company that almost each of you work at requires a link to a LinkedIn account on every job application, not optional. It has become a form of social credit. LinkedIn isn't completely meaningless either. A huge portion of the posts are also propaganda. Finding a new job is tied to listening to propaganda.

    Once upon a time academic reputations were generally ex-
    pected to be based upon the productions of books, studies, mono-
    graphs—in sum, upon the production of ideas and scholarly
    works, and upon the judgment of these works by academic col-
    leagues and intelligent laymen. One reason why this has been so
    in social science and the humanities is that a man’s competence
    or incompetence has been available for inspection, since the older
    academic world did not contain privileged positions of compe-
    tence. It is rather difficult to know whether the alleged compe-
    tence of a corporation president, for example, is due to his own
    personal abilities or to the powers and facilities available to him
    by virtue of his position. But there has been no room for such
    doubt about scholars working, as old-fashioned professors have
    worked, as craftsmen.
    
    However, by his prestige, the new academic statesman, like the
    business executive and the military chieftain, has acquired means
    of competence which must be distinguished from his personal
    competence—but which in his reputation are not so distinguished.
    A permanent professional secretary, a clerk to run to the library,
    an electric typewriter, dictating equipment, and a mimeographing
    machine, and perhaps a small budget of three or four thousand
    dollars a year for purchasing books and periodicals—even such
    minor office equipment and staff enormously increases any
    scholar’s appearance of competence. Any business executive will
    laugh at the pettiness of such means; college professors will not
    —few professors, even productive ones, have such facilities on a
    secure basis. Yet such equipment is a means of competence and
    of career—which secure clique membership makes much more
    likely than does unattached scholarship. The clique’s prestige
    increases the chance to get them, and having them in turn in-
    creases the chance to produce a reputation.

We need more leaders like that.

Yes, this is a totally new phenomenon which has never ever been the case at literally every point in human history.

Rewarding people who are good that this is a compounding mistake.

Wait, what? Being two or more steps removed from "a real customer" makes your job bullshit?

LinkedIn is full of bullshit because no one has anything genuine to say that’s appropriate for that platform. The people posting that nonsense don’t actually believe it.

The game is tedious, and if you don’t play you lose. It was like this before the Internet, too: my father limited his earning potential by being bad at networking, whereas my grandfather did went so far as to join the Freemasons to climb the corporate ladder to the top.

It's funny how easily you can convince people that social media is not real life and those influencers posting content 24/7 are a minority of people putting on a show, not a reflection of the real world

But when the topic changes to LinkedIn they completely forget that and act like it's a perfect representation of the working world.

Very few people post to the LinkedIn feed. Those who do are usually playing a game of some sort. If you go to the LinkedIn feed and draw conclusions, know that you're drawing conclusions about a vocal minority of wannabe business influencers. These people exist, but LinkedIn is a circus sideshow to the world of business. Not the main attraction.