Give it one boring, honest fact. Get back a full LinkedIn thought-leadership post — epiphany arc, fake paradox, fortune-cookie lesson, comment-farming question. Without inventing a single fact.
Input: "I fixed a typo in the docs." Requested level: maximum slop.
> /bullshit:inflate I fixed a typo in the docs. Make it maximum slop.
Shit-o-meter: 😈 95% [█████████▌]
I almost didn't post this.
Last week, I did something "small." One character. One file. Nobody asked me to.
And it changed how I think about craftsmanship forever.
This isn't about a typo. It's about ownership. It's about caring when no one is watching.
The lesson: excellence isn't a task on your board. It's who you are between the tasks.
What's the smallest thing YOU did that changed everything? 👇
♻️ Repost if you believe details matter.
#Craftsmanship #Ownership #GrowthMindset #Leadership #DevLife
The recipe: an epiphany arc wrapped around a one-character diff, a preemptive defense ("this isn't about a typo" — it is), an unfalsifiable double lesson, cadence-theater, a comment-farming question, and a repost plea. Fact count: one typo, faithfully preserved.
Ships in the same plugin as deflate — one install, both directions. Output matches your input's language.
If you don't have it yet: npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code, then run claude and log in.
Inside any Claude Code session:
/plugin marketplace add idlechara/bullshit /plugin install bullshit@bullshit
Hand it a boring fact — optionally with a bloat level ("mild", "90%", "maximum slop"):
/bullshit:inflate <a plain, boring fact>
The exact same nine tells deflate detects — read as instructions instead of diagnoses. Know the trick, use the trick, spot the trick.
Open with struggle, hit a dark night, then "and that's when I realized…".
the load-bearing tellRestate the obvious consequence as a mind-bending contradiction.
curiosity gap · pseudo-profundityClose with a fortune cookie. A lesson that could be wrong is too specific.
vagueness is load-bearingEvery line its own paragraph. Drama by whitespace.
fluency-as-truth"Has this happened to you? 👇" — answerable by all eight billion humans.
a lever on the ranking functionAI / transformation / agile, where deleting them changes nothing.
trend-hijacking"This isn't about layoffs." Reserve for high bloat — strongest spice.
apophasisOnly if your input has a number — then never say how it was measured.
no number in, no number outOnly if you mentioned the big-name company. The logo argues for you.
never name-drops for youIt never invents facts. No fabricated numbers, metrics, employers, credentials, or events — every factual claim in the output comes from your input. The inflation is 100% framing: paradoxes, epiphanies, lessons, and questions carry zero information, which is exactly the joke.
That's also the design test: feed the output back to deflate and you should get your original fact back — and nothing else. Cringe is the goal; fraud is out of scope.
And if you ask it why a trick works, it drops the bit and answers from the same grounded research catalog as its good twin: references/catalog.md — Cialdini, Pennycook, Green & Brock, Tversky & Kahneman, sources cited.