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I just went to check-- I have 6 first-degree connections with the phrase "thought leader" in their title. This out of about 800 connections, all of which are people I've met in-person. Some real-world examples:

* "Independent Thought Leader and Consultant"

* "Strategy, Innovation, and Distruptive Technology thought leader in the Hyperscale/Cloud business"

* "AI Thought Leader + Founder at <company name>.ai"

* "C++ expert and agile process thought leader"

When expanded to 2nd degree connections, I get more than 10 pages of results when searching for the phrase "Thought Leader" (in quotes, so it's not a fuzzy search phrase).

If done properly, autocomplete w/ Typescript and string literals should work just fine.

> used a bot to replace all posts with random sentences

not so pertinent to your main point, but I've got to say: This is absolutely ruining Reddit, and I sure hope they prevent this from happening sometime soon.

Nothing worse than finally finding the answer some some esoteric question, seeing a thread of "wow, that works perfectly, you're a Godsend!", and then getting to the answer itself and finding something like "Urban walrus clover ocean speaker carpet [this comment has been removed by SomeTool]".

How about when compared to income potential?

That map makes it look extremely crowded. Actual relative satellite size is many magnitudes smaller than each of those 1-pixel representations.

> I was lucky enough to receive a weeklong $50k per head AI training

wow! That sounds like an unbelievable grift. Who were they such that anyone could possibly think that's a worthwhile investment?

I see one single comment from a person who self-identifies themselves as a 50yo male. Nothing in his comment could be reasonably interpreted as "bragging."

Where are you seeing "a ton of old guys bragging"?

Many people haven't, but thanks to the wide world of cross-site tracking, frequent shopping cards etc, your purchases can still be attributed to ads you've seen (and even billboards!)

The only ones making the HPV vaccine "political" are the morons who think it shouldn't be administered because it increases promiscuity, or the ones who mistakenly think vaccines cause more harm than they help.

Completely disagree, given algorithms artificially boost content. The comparison to being an "online town square" is inapt, and I think a lot of people pushing that particular narrative actually know it too.

A good reminder in the article about something a lot of folks here tend to forget:

> Finally, contrary to what many in Congress have been saying, social media platforms and other internet intermediaries have their own First Amendment rights to decide how they moderate users’ speech. They are not “state actors” and do not have an obligation under the First Amendment to allow all user speech on their platforms.

Private platforms do not have an obligation, legal, moral, or otherwise, to host or boost your harmful opinions and mis/disinformation campaigns.

You're asking how breaking the law is cheating? If not, can you clarify your question?

Despite advertising themselves as such, the party hasn't been for actual small government at least during my entire lifetime (40+ years).

Can you elaborate on what you mean?

I mean... their stock is up more than 1,000% since 2014. Anyone who has been there for a few years should have multiple refreshers that have grown significantly in value.

They literally don't. Data is their moat; selling it would be counter to their financial success.

You think not being allowed to write any code manually is the norm?

> "You shouldn't be manually writing any code".

Can someone explain how this mentality could possibly be rational? It sounds completely asinine to me, and I use AI quite a bit for my job.

In fact, the team at my work that seems to be 100% AI writes the worst code, follows no standards, and doesn't seem faster at all than teams that are simply AI-augmented.

> The JS ecosystem is really, really complicated, so any non-trivial app is going to use multiple bundlers, node runtimes, native runtimes, etc, etc, etc.

This statement makes very little sense to me. I've worked on several of what are likely the largest JS monorepos in the world, and they all define a specific version of a specific runtime and package manager you should be using.

I've been seeing this sentiment since I got into professional software development nearly 20 years ago.

I'm one ban away from a permaban thanks to the Navy Seal copypasta

Dishonest people.

Why would a self-described "AI Engineer" be any more capable of building that sort of functionality over any other backend engineer, especially one who is familiar with agent-assisted development?

Considering 99% of engineers are using AI tools, that would mean all engineers are now "Agentic Engineers." Are we really no longer putting any value on someone who has expertise in understanding the code it produces?

Hopefully retire, because I'd literally rather be dead than go much deeper into this shitty corporate world borne of AI.

Reminds me of a car dealership talking about how good of a deal their extended maintenance plan and warranties are.

I'm seeing the exact same thing with colleagues past and present on LinkedIn. They know how to use Claude, so their titles are now "AI tech lead" or "Lead AI engineer" or whatever, even though they're still just building the same basic CRUD they've built their entire careers.

> Bogo sort, Canary, and Rubber-Ducking come to mind

None of those come from such a deep hell as the "looksmaxxing" community.

> i am excited to see what will happen with tokenmaxxing startups, both for how they work internally and the products they can build.

Am I the only one who gets a physical, visceral churning in their gut when they read/hear someone unironically using the term "tokenmaxxing"?

This is the absolute worst timeline, and I'm embarrassed to even be in an industry adjacent to these dorks.

That number is grossly inflated for every S-1. It's about as close to meaningless as you could possibly get.

For example, I used to work for an insurance-related tech company. They claimed their TAM was $9T-- the value of the entire global insurance market.