I regularly gets paid by my clients to help them filter out candidates because they don't feel they have the technical skill to do so or their team is too busy

I regularly gets paid by my clients to help them filter out candidates because they don't feel they have the technical skill to do so or their team is too busy coding something to be available for anything else than than validating the last batch. One thing that comes over and over again is how much most candidates suck at programming. There are a huge quantity of people that are terrible at coding that will apply to your senior dev $200k job offer. They all have a great CV, and they cheat at everything: fake interviews with a look-alike, using chatgpt or indian services to solve programming tests are not uncommon. Last year, I had one former trader applying for a python job with a perfect resume, a stellar homework result, and who was claiming he likes "putting some good 10 hours of coding". First, there are maybe a 100 people in my country that can focus 10 hours in a row on code, and they won't apply for those clients. Second, the live coding review showed that he struggled to even create a basic virtualenv. Last month I created a test that I knew had one question that ChatGPT got wrong. 2 candidates gave me the GPT answer last week. So companies are desperate and try sieves after sieves, hoping to separate gold from mud. And they have limited time and resources to do so. Of course the hiring process sucks. Even if they knew what they were doing, and most of them are not, it would suck. Now don't get me wrong, it's nice the power balance is shitfing toward the workers for once, but hoping the other side won't react is just naive.