I get so much AI spam related to jobs, and it’s so obvious because AI cannot articulate what my job is at all. “I am so impressed with your work in critical infrastructure intelligence forensics testing” ???

I even get AI headhunted by AI companies who also have no idea what I do. It doesn’t say a lot about the capability of their AI.

Just being a ticket desk volunteer for a few hours and being personable at a local BSides goes so much further than 500 Claude spam messages to strangers on LinkedIn…

People don’t get that how far a bit of courtesy and effort goes in job hunts. I have gifted conference passes, party invites, given referrals, certification vouchers, and internships to mentees who showed up and cared. I’ve also permanently blocklisted people who low effort AI spammed, or no showed.