Building in Public: A Conversational Agent That Detects LinkedIn Job Scams With Probabilistic Reasoning
aamir000 · reddit · 2026-09-13
Reacting to the flood of LinkedIn job scams (high pay for basic full-stack roles), a developer is building in public a conversational scam-detector agent — not a single LLM API call, but a production-ready agentic solution.
The design:
- The agent monitors the conversation and continuously updates its belief about whether the outreach is a scam based on accumulated evidence.
- It reasons probabilistically, using problem theory, to decide under uncertainty rather than relying on hard rules.
- Common scam patterns cited: 'our product is in MVP stage', asking you to clone and install the product before a call with 'our manager', and Calendly invites belonging to someone else.
The detailed agent architecture is promised in a follow-up post; the author is soliciting community input. It's still at the idea/problem-definition stage with no validated implementation yet.
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