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Doing this is a great way to make a bonfire of your reputation

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Developer Tools Simon Willison 2026-05-14

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Simon Willison
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2026-05-14
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Developer Tools

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Coding copilots, APIs, SDKs, open-source releases, dev workflows, and engineering infrastructure. This item originated as a short-form social post, so the context blocks below help expand it into tools, models, and evaluation guides.

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Doing this is a great way to make a bonfire of your reputation Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) A person I know (and who is? was? a good professional al) left an AI-generated comment under my LinkedIn post. Full-on AI slop. I asked: why do this? He replied. It’s because of “engagement.” People are burning their profession al reputation, paying for AI tools, for nothing — https://nitter.net/GergelyOrosz/status/2053937225063150079#m

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Doing this is a great way to make a bonfire of your reputation Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) A person I know (and who is? was? a good professional al) left an AI-generated comment under my LinkedIn post. Full-on AI slop. I asked: why do this? He replied. It’s because of “engagement.” People are burning their profession al reputation, paying for AI tools, for nothing — https://nitter.net/GergelyOrosz/status/2053937225063150079#m

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