post pub. Sep 28, 2026
A rant about the flood of near-identical computer vision demo projects on LinkedIn, followed by building a YOLOv8 detector for "excited to announce my YOLO project" posts in about 90 minutes to show how little effort they take.
The author's broader argument is that LinkedIn rewards looking interesting rather than getting better, and that calling out low-effort work is socially costly there because comments show up on your profile, so the same pothole detector gets posted over and over with no visible improvement.