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Satirical short story parodies LinkedIn hustle culture and AI over-reliance

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Summary

A satirical short story about a LinkedIn-style "hustle culture" enthusiast who, while on the way to a business meeting, encounters troublemakers on a bus. Instead of intervening directly, they use Claude (an AI assistant) to handle the situation through coding, complete with dangerous permissions. The piece parodies tech bro culture, over-reliance on AI, and the absurdity of LinkedIn influencer storytelling.

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I opened my macbook and showed Claude what was happening. "Claude, we gotta do something!", I said.

"You're absolutely right!", Claude affirmed in a calm and confident font

thanks to --dangerously-skip-permissions, it had started coding before I had even thought about what to do

It was "cannoodling", which I think is one of the good ones.

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I was on the bus on my way to an important business meeting about the exponential growth of my MRR, when suddenly I noticed some troublemakers were hassling an old lady. Their caps were on backwards, their clothes were baggy, and probably thought the grin

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