For the last few months, LinkedIn has been evolving into an echo chamber, and the latest iteration is an AI filtering of comments. Ie. anything countering the "favourites" is banned by default. It will return "your comment can not be posted at this time", purely for AI detecting a sentiment going against the grain. This is directly related to a concept of "energy pendulums" where only the favourites of a certain entity are allowed to exist. While this may sound like good news, if you are a LinkedIn favourite, all you are doing is being drained of your energy in serving a machine.
The race to the bottom with the help of AI has resulted in so many spin-off efforts, that even AI itself is now confused. Whoever used to benefit from fleecing clients is now having to compete with the wannabees and the clients themselves. One company I had a job interview for was happily hacking an old website of their client just to keep them happy. It was obvious, that the CEO himself, doing all the work with AI now had very little idea about how it was built, but was happy to announce, that the client at least paid them "some money" for the fix. I.e. a literal race TO THE BOTTOM, in complete disregard of the long term. You asked for it, AI is here.
"Go to another room!" - the MD is shouting at me. I replied to his email where he was pretending to care, and after weeks of being exhausted by the conflicting demands of his and 7 other "managers" who were urging me to fix their website that took YEARS and countless thousands of pounds to mess up to a state that I had inherited, I said in my reply: "I will do it, just let me do my job". I have never come across lack of professionalism in my life before, after a career in banking and various startups spanning more than 20 years. This year it was beginning to look like I was in a MATRIX. The director proceeded to shout at me, while I was trying to walk it off outside, nervously trying to turn the volume on my phone up. He was in China, Dubai, or some place else. Not in the office. Typical. This story is worth a small book, and maybe one day it will see the light of being published. To be continued...
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