"We now continue to work as before, getting social media engagement for us and our clients, applying to YC 2026 and other VCs."

Ehh, so this is a click farm?

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snakeboy 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

At this point, is the most "effective ethical" career path for a software developer to work on LLMs to flood social media and ad-clicks to speedrun the collapse of digital marketing? And thus freeing competent but money-driven software engineers to work on something else?

	▲	lukan an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		By collapse of digital marketing you mean collapse of social networks? I cannot say I would miss them, but I doubt it will solve the problem. Because yes, software engineers would love to work on many interesting things. But they also love being able to buy food and pay rent. If the ad companies don't pay money anymore, who will replace them? (I still dream of a world with donation for free services as default, but I am usually not taken serious with this.) And .. about ad companies and LLMs - I think the madness just started. Once the marketing companies get their product placements directly into the models and the agents sophisticated enough, that you cannot trust anything posted online anymore, it will just destroy anonymous communication, as you cannot trust any anonymous account anymore at all. And will have a hard time finding out who is, who they say they are.
	▲	Klaster_1 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That's one of opening points of Dodge in Hell by Neil Stephenson.

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vjk800 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Check out the guy's social media (links in the original article). The shit is downright hilarious. He's very self-conscious about how horrible his business is.

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dansmith1919 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah now we know why it’s on the front page not even 10 minutes after posting…

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xnx 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

With only 60 phones, this is like a click homestead.

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chrisandchris 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> We help startups get attention with automated social media marketing on physical phones.

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breppp 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Combining what Ukraine is known for, kicking Russian ass and creating shady software

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antoniojtorres 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What a rollercoaster to arrive at that in the end

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mbreese 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Your own army of physical phones in just a few clicks

From a project page linked from the original post.

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Nextgrid 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Click farms effectively function as janitors, mopping up spam someone else paid to throw so that no real user stumbles upon it, so they are beneficial.