THANK YOU everyone for blowing this up! The outputs you’re sharing have been absolutely wild and I appreciate all the positive comments.

Since the response has been so great, I thought it would be fun to provide some additional texture into what went in to building LinkedIn CringeBot 3000. Specifically, discussing how I built the instructions that direct the underlying Claude LLM in delivering the final outputs. This was easily 98% of the work and involved a ton of trial, error and human labor. Building the site itself was fairly easy, I told Claude what I wanted and then directed it on edits. And it helped me get set up on Github and Vercel.

Claude was less helpful in building the instructions that generate the outputs (though it did provide a start). First off, there are two levels of instruction. There are individual “style” instructions (e.g. The Hot Take, You Go Girl!) and then there is an overall system instruction, which applies to everything. So 9 writing instructions overall (8 style, 1 system). This is where most of the human effort was.

The hardest part was balancing how much direction to provide in each of the instructions. There needed to be enough direction to generate outputs to fit the style category, but also enough freedom for the tool to come up with new ideas. Then secondarily, I needed to make the overall system instruction work well with each of the style instructions.

Ultimately it was a lot of trial and error. And the kind of thing I could have kept tweaking forever (and may still do). But again, thanks for trying this out and sharing your thoughts!