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LinkedIn is full of optimism-killing transhumanists

ByTC Marti

LinkedIn is where my AI for Solopreneurs audience lives, and it’s a place where those bending tech to one’s will clashes with those who bend to tech’s will.

Here’s what I love about my upcoming AI for Solopreneurs product: It will help freelancers, authors, sportswriters, and anyone who runs their own ship the chance to cut their screen time because they’ll have so many different aspects of their businesses on auto-pilot, like:

  • Scheduling social media posts
  • Content ideas that actually draw readers
  • Workflows that put customers into correct segments
  • And even content outlines

But you know what this upcoming product doesn’t promise them? Success if they let AI tools and fully-automated systems erase the human aspect. In other words, this product isn’t for people mistaking AI for a whole food when it should be a supplement.

And not a miracle supplement—something akin to my favorite pre-workout: Alani Nu. It’ll get me going, but it’s not going to make me go into Berserker mode in the gym.

Still, when I venture to LinkedIn for my teaching moment of the day, or how I talk about using AI in all of my ventures, I see one uncomfortable common denominator: AI garbage in sometimes two out of every three posts.

There’s a disturbing trend on LinkedIn moving at the pace of a freight train

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not about to single out LinkedIn because I’m sure this is happening in other corners of the internet. But when I’m on Substack and scrolling through Notes to provide meaningful comments on, it’s refreshing to see that nobody I’m following—and I mean nobody—has AI patterns.

Without naming names, here’s some of what I’m getting on LinkedIn:

I get paid millions to hear “no.”

Because no doesn’t mean rejection.

It means they don’t understand yet.

Stay long enough to help them see it.

I see four short, choppy sentences with zero cadence, plus “doesn’t mean…it means…” It took me just over a second to spot this nonsense. Seriously, if you want to cater to why you’re getting paid millions and want to lure customers, how can I trust you if you’re letting a robot craft the final draft of your social media posts?

Here’s another one:

The moment you win a deal, something breaks.

All that context from the sales process. The client’s real concerns, the competitive dynamics, the commitments made. It lives in someone’s head. Maybe a CRM note. Maybe nowhere.

Then delivery starts, and the team rebuilds understanding from scratch.

I’ve watched this pattern for 15 years. The handoff tax is real. Projects start behind because context doesn’t travel.

What if your pipeline and delivery shared the same brain? What if the insights from your first call informed your final deliverable?

That’s what we built.

Next week, we’re launching something that connects the full consulting lifecycle. From shaping opportunities to delivering outcomes.

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