Seriously. If AI can write cover letters and solve complex philosophical problems, it sure as hell can parse a resume. Not taking advantage of this obvious time-saving device just screams that the entire job is about wasting your time.
There are actually a few tools that crawl job sites and can auto submit your resume already. Predictably, there was a lot of complaining about it. With agentic tools maturing, it won’t be long before you can just give AI your resume and have it trawl the job sites and apply to relevant jobs. They will have reaped what they sowed.
There’s an excellent, way underrated scifi novel that I love telling people about because it predicted our current moment. Greg Egan’s Permutation City, written in freaking 1994.
You follow the simulation of a man as that man runs experiments on him of how simulated people work. If you played SOMA, those folks definitely read it! Advanced AI spam filters are used to detect advanced AI spammers in a nonstop cold war for your precious attention. I think eventually the AIs are replaced by simulations of yourself enslaved to the task of responding to messages, but I may just be combining that story with qntm’s short story Lena which is also terrifying yet likely soon to be true!
I just want to be able to submit my resume and be done. Fuck their website making me reinput all the same shit that’s on my resume.
I guess they want to see if you can tolerate bullshit meaningless work.
Seriously. If AI can write cover letters and solve complex philosophical problems, it sure as hell can parse a resume. Not taking advantage of this obvious time-saving device just screams that the entire job is about wasting your time.
There are actually a few tools that crawl job sites and can auto submit your resume already. Predictably, there was a lot of complaining about it. With agentic tools maturing, it won’t be long before you can just give AI your resume and have it trawl the job sites and apply to relevant jobs. They will have reaped what they sowed.
There’s an excellent, way underrated scifi novel that I love telling people about because it predicted our current moment. Greg Egan’s Permutation City, written in freaking 1994.
You follow the simulation of a man as that man runs experiments on him of how simulated people work. If you played SOMA, those folks definitely read it! Advanced AI spam filters are used to detect advanced AI spammers in a nonstop cold war for your precious attention. I think eventually the AIs are replaced by simulations of yourself enslaved to the task of responding to messages, but I may just be combining that story with qntm’s short story Lena which is also terrifying yet likely soon to be true!