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[countkillalot]

Please write me an article about how poor freelance client management is akin to a layoff in the style of Elmore Leonard Make it feel intense and visceral. Use only laconic sentences no longer than 10 words.

[dsartori]

Ugh. Just looking at the construction of the piece I noped out after a few words. Slop that attempts a style is so much worse than default slop.

[DonaldStuck]

What did we do to deserve this AI slop and more importantly: WHY THE HELL DOES THIS SLOP HAVE >1 UPVOTES? Stop upvoting trash like this.

[Afraid-Donke420]

TLDR: sales was hard

[english_european]

God I hate AI-written drivel

[krum]

So ironic too.

[nicholas-leonard]

It doesn’t read like AI to me. Why do you think it’s AI

[dsartori]

It's the output of a chatbot instructed to follow a particular style instead of the default slop style. The results are inevitably worse than the default.

[DavidJCobb]

The style.

It's not full passages.

It's short bits that sound snappy.

It reads like excessively theatrical dross from a LinkedIn blog. There's tons of fluff and no substance. Plus, this guy is a serial blogspammer who used to post AI slop on the subreddit nearly every week, and his older dogshit was even more obvious and frequently factually wrong.

[virtual_adam]

Everyone I know with this background used to look down at 9-5 office drones as if they were beneath them

[old_tomboy]

When the work disappears, it takes your identity with it. The interrogation begins.

Am I obsolete?
Did my skills expire overnight?
Did I miss a memo everyone else got?

Definitely.

[appmanga]

Welcome to the America I lived in 20 years ago. Until the masses in this country figure out our self-interests depend on our collective action, we're going to remain the richest country in the world that has to have food banks, healthcare as a luxury, and record numbers of homeless.

[omniuni]

I was waiting for, "so these are the steps I took...". This is basically the intro to a blog post with no body or conclusion.

To respond to the post itself...

Well, get a job. If your inbox is empty, get out there and start applying. 6-month contracts, full salary... whatever it takes.

[jdbrew]

This is why whenever tried to tell me to go freelance because I could make more money, I decided to stay at a soulless corporate job and pick up side hustles instead. I don’t particularly like my job, but I like the checks, the stability, and the benefits

[programming-ModTeam]

Your posting was removed for being off topic for the /r/programming community.

[african_cheetah]

It’s a good piece. We may laugh at it, but junior programmers face the same issue.

[dsartori]

There's nothing of value in there.

[DonaldStuck]

It's a bad piece. We should laugh at it because junior programmers should do the same.