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> Are applicants just supposed to sit and roll their thumbs waiting for the right AI to have the right hallucinations?

The really bright people are doing hype and bleeding edge things like this. Getting lots of notice, trending on HN (and probably LinkedIn), etc.

Everyone else? Yeah.

I don't mean this as a diss. This is just the meta. I got a really good job doing exactly this sort of thing. And it worked marvels for fundraising too.

I absolutely know not everyone has time or patience for this bullshit meta game. But networking and distribution are kind of like that.

tl;dr - If you trend on HN, LinkedIn, etc., you're already winning the hiring game.






Good for you, and him, for a while at least.

What about the world?

Being good at this bullshit doesn't imply any kind of competence in anything that matters.


The tech industry is increasingly performative.

It's nothing new. All of human life throughout time has been.



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