LinkedIn Larpmaxxing(hereticpleb.vercel.app)
317 points by BurnerBurner 14 days ago | 249 comments
tl;dr: The author rants about LinkedIn's flood of nearly identical "YOLO computer vision" projects (hand tracking, pothole detection, etc.) that are performative, trivial, and never actually deployed anywhere useful. To prove the point, they built their own YOLO-based detector for these slop posts in about 90 minutes using Roboflow and Ultralytics, concluding that LinkedIn rewards looking impressive over actual skill, since nobody dares criticize for fear of hurting their job prospects.
HN Discussion:
  • ↑LinkedIn's technical hypocrisy: obfuscates against scrapers while praising AI everywhere
  • •LinkedIn poisons Google search results with login-walled pages
  • ↓Larpmaxxing actually works when strategically targeted at specific decision-makers
  • ↓If you hate LinkedIn just leave; it still has genuine networking value
  • ↑LinkedIn is full of performative self-promotion slop, confirming the article's thesis