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24 Antipatterns to Avoid in 2024 🚫2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣🚫 🤖💩🤡🤯

Ingo Steinke on October 24, 2023

Avoid these common antipatterns when blogging in 2024 (or no matter when) to prevent getting misunderstood for a mock tech influencer. 1....
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Ben Sinclair

I clicked this bait, with a heavy sigh, because I'm just starting the first coffee of the morning and wanted to feel grumpy at someone.

Well played, good job, etc.

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Ingo Steinke

Thanks for reading!

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Ingo Steinke • Edited

I updated my post to clarify what was meant as a parody and what wasn't, and that I respect people sharing value in the posts, even if I'd prefer a more informative and less blatant narrative style. So I added more specific details about the aspects that I don't find helpful. I also added Eric Allam's post which inspired me to release mine ahead of its schedule.

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Bogomil Shopov - Бого

"Posting something for the sake of posting anything."

Amen to that. We produce a lot of useless content and spend a lot of storage for that. Can we do something more valuable as a community?

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Seth Phat

Definitely hate the #3.

Weeks ago, LinkedIn invited me to contribute to some articles, where experts can share their experiences.

Took a look, and most answers from "experts" were generated from GPT, Claude, you name it.

It doesn't bring any useful knowledge, information is varied,... The article itself was generated using AI, we don't need to see more generated AI stuff lol.

Overusing or even Abusing AI is just really bad.

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Ingo Steinke

A perfect ^H^H^H the best!!! post needs an ANIMATED GIF ANIMATION!!! so I added 1

animation of the actual post title and a variation called 24 goals to achieve in 2024

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Saurabh Rai

Good post @ingosteinke, and yes, the state reflects more like the ecosystem of tech YouTube as well. There are:

  • Clickbait titles
  • Good content that doesn't get views
  • Good content that does get views (rare)
  • Good content with a mix of clickbait looped inside to get views.

But your post is good, and I'd appreciate it and the freshness it brings. It's like the fresh lime after eating a lot of cake.

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Arjun S

I have actively avoided these types of articles from medium and dev.to for the past year or so. I have even started to subscribe to some blogs of developers that I know are good (like nexxel, for example) since quality content seems to be lost in both of these sites and is just full of content meant to market a product or project.

I do still find joy when a good article pops up in my feed every now and then.
Also, thank you for this post :)