Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?

> My LinkedIn feed

Do you seriously use that?

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Don't you remember the time that people were solving the 'Strait of Hormuz' crisis on LinkedIn with lines drawn on maps and showing their 'problem-solving' skills?

... or was it just my feed?

LinkedIn was always sooo fake and bad as in it was a living nightmare dystopia some of the shit people would write.

I often wondered: Is this how you get promotions? No way does that actually work or do anything... And then I'm like holy shit is it genuine??? Is this really coming from the heart and I'm the cold, dead, psychopath who can't appreciate a genuinely thoughtful update from a corporate peer?

I had to get out of there.

I'm not on LinkedIn anymore... but I imagine it's even worse now that all the b2b saas posters have gone full agentic.

You never go full agentic.

No one provides any value in their posts. I want to try to generate leads for my business and I’m told to use LinkedIn. I’m trying to provide some value - useful things such as how to configure home assistant to see if kids devices were pulling data in the night (when they should have been asleep), etc. it’s not exactly getting the back patting as ‘trillion dollar markets’ musings or soc2 congratulations… but if one person benefits I’ll be happy . But yes that does mean I’m a LinkedIn wanker… can’t beat em, join em!

LinkedIn doesn't really reward meaningful content. People there are just looking for meaningless business related platitudes at the expense of all else.

Well, that and based on my experience, most AI 'evangelists' tend to be pretty bad at coming up with creative ideas in general. Many of them are basically the same grifters that tried to cash in on crypto and NFTs, except with a new fad of choice.

I think of LinkedIn like walking into a Tony Robbins event. At least, what I imagine they are like from those old infomercials.

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Those that can, Do.

Enough said.

Maybe it's the mediocre people who are most excited about AI because they see it as equalizing them with more interesting and original people.

Who unironically writes "thought leader" as their job description?

The term of AI is definitely overused on the internet especially on social media platforms. One possible reason might be related to marketing.

The fundamental behind AI is the same thing behind traditional software systems. So for the “AI evangelists” — the needs to be recognized is much stronger than the needs to be a great software engineer.

I am using a metaphor, do you want to play soccer in the playground? Or do you want to be a great fan of soccer? Have you seen soccer evangelists to be great soccer players?

I see the same thing. The majority of their posts are, of course, AI-generated and incredibly verbose.

They probably just set up some AI tool to make posts automatically. A quick search shows things like this: https://apaya.com/lp/linkedin

It's bot spam all the way down.

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You missed the AI generated graphic to go with the post.

Then why are you reading LinkedIn...

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>My LinkedIn feed

That's your problem right there.

When has anyone's LinkedIn feed been anything else than blatant attempts at self-promotion, spam, cliche business advice and empty work-related platitudes (a lot of it AI generated itself nowadays, for extra-slopiness).

Fake it til you make it baby!

They're just jumping on the hype train but can you really blame them? They've been hearing about how their job will be replaced, how they need to upskill with AI, and they see everyone else doing it. Many probably have no real skills so they're just trying to survive.

Get off LinkedIn.

> why is linkdin shit?

Because linkdin is shit? Ez.