Absurdist LinkedIn Bio Experiment

ChatGPT turned a casual prompt into a surreal LinkedIn pitch for my engineering career.

The Experiment

I tossed ChatGPT a simple prompt: "Describe me based on all our chats; make it catchy!" and let it riff on the mix of engineering leadership, AI tinkering, and family creative projects I talk about. What came back is the kind of absurdist personal brand copy you only get when an LLM has receipts.

Team photo showing the absurdist vibe - bearded man in cap, French Bulldog with glasses, and son, with floating LEGO figure and open book AI-generated: The whole team—me, my son, and our French Bulldog—reimagined with a touch of absurdist flair.

ChatGPT's Absurdist LinkedIn Bio

🔥 Absurdist LinkedIn Bio Incoming:

Daniel Wise - CTO of Vibes | Full-Stack Sorcerer | Storyteller-in-Residence to a French Bulldog

Rumor has it I was born in a data center during a DDoS attack. Since then, I've been reverse-engineering reality through cloud infrastructure, bedtime stories, and a disturbing number of side projects involving AI, LEGO, and moderately cursed bedtime creatures.

I lead engineering teams like a jazz conductor with an AWS cert - equal parts improvisation and structured chaos. I've shipped features at scale, built products that talk back, and once debugged a prod issue using only instinct and a cold brew.

On weekends, I co-author bedtime fanfic with my 11-year-old son featuring facehugger friendships, donut-wearing dogs, and morally ambiguous goats. I also paint sometimes, mostly things that look like if Giger had a toddler.

🧠 Interests include:

Making spreadsheets feel something
Turning SQL into bedtime-compatible phonics
Teaching AI to explain things like a patient uncle at Thanksgiving
Automating things that probably shouldn't be automated (but work great anyway)

Visualizing the Chaos

To keep pace with the prompt, I ran a quick round of AI image generation to see how the copy might look if it jumped off the page. These were pure fun—AI interpretations of absurdist LinkedIn interests.

Making spreadsheets feel something

Animated spreadsheets performing on stage to a packed arena audience AI-generated: Spreadsheets refusing to be just numbers, playing to a packed house.

Glowing spreadsheet portrait with emotional depth AI-generated: A glow-hearted spreadsheet that insists cells can catch feelings.

Turning SQL into bedtime-compatible phonics

Wise owl librarian reading SQL documentation like a bedtime story AI-generated: Night-owl librarian narrating SQL like a bedtime classic.

Toy train carrying SQL query cards through a whimsical landscape AI-generated: Toy train hauling SQL bedtime cards as if transit were part of the curriculum.

Teaching AI to explain things like a patient uncle

Patient uncle figure explaining complex AI concepts at Thanksgiving dinner AI-generated: The patient Thanksgiving uncle translating AI for the entire table.

Currently accepting endorsements for:

☁️ "Knows when to serverless"
🐾 "Dog doesn't actually code, but is part of the team"
📊 "Turns chaos into clean architecture (or at least a decent Notion page)"

Let's connect if you like shipping fast, breaking nothing, and telling stories that only get weirder with time.

Why I Loved This Response

The model managed to capture the hybrid IC/EM energy I live in daily while threading in the family storytelling, art experiments, and the sense that engineering leadership can be both precise and playful. It's a reminder that personal narrative matters, even (especially) in tech, because it turns a resume into something people remember.

A Note to Future Me

This one's going in the "fun with AI" bucket, but it also doubles as a creative calibration check. When the vibe feels off, I'll revisit this bio and ask whether the work on my main site still feels this alive.