Not long ago, it was all about SEO. Nowadays, it’s more about building reputation and trust. When you see a real face and a name—someone you can connect with on LinkedIn—it instantly boosts the credibility of a startup or any company you’ve never heard of. Even if AI writes the content, once you know there’s an actual person behind it, the trust factor jumps.

While SEO and organic reach are still useful tricks, more and more people are turning to ChatGPT and its alternatives as their search engines of choice. This shift means that Google traffic is taking a backseat to the curiosity and engagement of LinkedIn users.

Depending on the day, it's anywhere from $50 to $200. When you're advising companies and rubbing shoulders with rich CEOs, there's always a price tag. Sometimes they treat you to a fancy meal—but more often, you're stuck halfway across the country, scrambling to grab a quick bite before you can pull over.

We have been using this system to combat scammers. Our team developed and trained an in-house LLM to initiate and manage conversations with scammers across various platforms, enabling us to continuously gather their information. In our company, our primary responsibility is to extract this data and share the scammer details with both the relevant platforms (for example, Meta) and law enforcement agencies.

We transitioned from a team of manual chatters, to hard-coded conversational scripts to an LLM-driven approach. This change has allowed us to handle interactions more accurately and scale to a much larger number of conversations per day.

Less grandmas are falling victim to crypto scams. Thanks AI.

LinkedIn is the corporate equivalent of a bureaucratic nightmare—shadow bans, mandatory passport selfies, and rankings that seem engineered by someone with a vendetta against real professionals. I rarely use it by choice, and when forced, it feels like navigating a labyrinth designed to obscure rather than showcase talent. No wonder your post got buried; it's just another casualty of their dark pattern playbook.

I still use a few—pragmatism over ideology, you know? Gmail and Chrome are entrenched in my workflow (even if I’d love to ditch the tracking), and YouTube is too handy a distraction to pass up. Android? It’s the lesser evil compared to flipping back to feature phones. As for Gemini, I haven’t gotten the invite yet. In short, I use what works, not what’s perfect.

Datadog’s antics are a headache, but I'm stuck with Splunk due to corporate compliance and security demands. We keep the costs in check by funneling our logs through Cribl. In my experience, most companies end up juggling Splunk, Wazuh, and some custom SecOps setups—no silver bullet, just a series of compromises that keep the auditors happy.