Remember When Humans Had Things To Say?

Technically a millenial but I'll sound more like a boomer on this one, you are advised:

Couple of years back I heard someone said we’ve reached peak content creation: a world where everyone is desperate to say something while having absolutely nothing to say.

It was already bad at that point, but who would've thought what it was to come after ChatGPT massive adoption in 2023.

I'm too young but I feel like I've seen it all already, from LinkedIn contacts that one morning they magically became the most eloquent writers in the world, (When did they became so good, so fast? 😕) Or those other folks that just like me, are not native English speakers and one day they misteriously woke up being bilingual, producing tons of content in a language they could barely use three days before, where the f* did they learnt so fast?

I did my homework, I spent almost three years living in English speaking countries, being an immigrant in a foreign country, not always the nicest experience, I guess you do what you gotta do but it did all paid off when I finally returned back home and I could set apart from the others just by the way I articulated my ideas in a foreign language. A skill that is fair to say I have been losing for lack of practice, hence this blog. Efforts and achievements like that are the ones that mean nothing today. Everybody is bilingual and extremely eloquent, at least until they open their mouth. Just give them access to ChatGPT and 1 minute to tweak their profiles and digital presence.

Believe it or not I was a super-late adopter of ChatGPT, I didn't even got my hands into it until 2024, and I still feel like I am not using LMs to its full potential.

When coding, I delegate to AI documentation tasks, tests if I can, and even core code production when possible. I obviously treat code generated by LM with skepticism most of the time, but I ended up using it. (Devs that deny using it are the type of people who deny having ever farted or watched porn)

But I guess it is not about the tool, but about the person behind it.

I mean I couldn't blame them, going back to using it for content creation and social media presence, who wouldn't want to sound like a TED Talk on steroids? Specially when the prize is as tangible as a "LinkedIn Top Voice" badge. I mean, come on, you know you’ve seen them. I've been carefully studying them to mimic their success and ended up abstracting some basic rules that God knows I will start applying them today. I'll share the templates with you in case you are as desperate as I am to get a piece of that pie:

The Fake Humblebrag Template

I never thought my simple post about ${topic} would go viral, but here we are—{"50,000" || numberOfLikesTriedHardToAchieveByPromotion} likes and a keynote invite. Guess I’ll share my secrets! (But first, tag 3 friends who ‘need to hear this.’)

The Forced Vulnerability Template™

I was fired in ${yearTheyKickedYourButtWithout2WeeksNoticeRuleApplyingForThem}. It was ${"the best thing that ever happened to me" || "my greatest opportunity for growth"}. Here’s a 1,200-word essay on how I monetized my trauma into a personal brand.

The AI-Generated Corporate Poetry Template (This one is immutable and easy to maintain)

I swear I am starting this route today. It works. The algorithm rewards this nonsense, so the cycle continues. HR ladies love it, if you have nothing to say they might assume you are not as good at your job as the engineer in their newsfeed.

We’re heading toward a content singularity—a black hole of recycled platitudes where real opinions go to die. A big pit of immense shit (and pardon my french 🫢) where talent and knowledge is measured by how many times you can say "synergy" in a post. And if you don't wanna play the game you are left behind.

So... How about you? Are you being a synergic and inclusive team-player within your synergic and inclusive agile squad? Good... That's what I thought.

// Sure! Here's a sarcastic and provocative post generated about that topic that will make you look smart among your peers and conceale your evident lack of criteria. Let me know if you need some changes.

Ooops, my bad