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And how exactly is that going to help improve the hiring situation? It's already very inhumane and getting worse. Are applicants just supposed to sit and roll

by codr7 1y ago

And how exactly is that going to help improve the hiring situation? It's already very inhumane and getting worse. Are applicants just supposed to sit and roll their thumbs waiting for the right AI to have the right hallucinations? I don't get the excitement for applying this crap to each and every aspect of our lives. What about the human experience?

echelon 1y ago
> Are applicants just supposed to sit and roll their thumbs waiting for the right AI to have the right hallucinations? The really bright people are doing hype and bleeding edge things like this. Getting lots of notice, trending on HN (and probably LinkedIn), etc. Everyone else? Yeah. I don't mean this as a diss. This is just the meta. I got a really good job doing exactly this sort of thing. And it worked marvels for fundraising too. I absolutely know not everyone has time or patience for this bullshit meta game. But networking and distribution are kind of like that. tl;dr - If you trend on HN, LinkedIn, etc., you're already winning the hiring game.
- codr7 1y ago
  Good for you, and him, for a while at least. What about the world? Being good at this bullshit doesn't imply any kind of competence in anything that matters.
  - sho_hn 1y ago
    The tech industry is increasingly performative.
    - echelon 1y ago
      It's nothing new. All of human life throughout time has been.
      - codr7 1y ago
        Bullshit, life has been gradually becoming more and more artificial and divorced from physical reality for a while now, and the speed seems to be increasing.
investa 1y ago
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jhgaylor 1y ago
If LLMs are going to get used to filter candidates out of jobs (they will, lets be real) then it is going to happen regardless of if a candidate makes a tool that explicitly provides their data in an LLM friendly format or not. Resumes are already being run through a machine. We know what the next generation of machine looks like, so now as candidates we can put our best foot forward.
liveoneggs 1y ago
Try thinking about life experiences and thoughts as a series of lottery tickets or futures contracts

by codr7 1y ago

echelon 1y ago

> Are applicants just supposed to sit and roll their thumbs waiting for the right AI to have the right hallucinations? The really bright people are doing hype and bleeding edge things like this. Getting lots of notice, trending on HN (and probably LinkedIn), etc. Everyone else? Yeah. I don't mean this as a diss. This is just the meta. I got a really good job doing exactly this sort of thing. And it worked marvels for fundraising too. I absolutely know not everyone has time or patience for this bullshit meta game. But networking and distribution are kind of like that. tl;dr - If you trend on HN, LinkedIn, etc., you're already winning the hiring game.

codr7 1y ago
Good for you, and him, for a while at least. What about the world? Being good at this bullshit doesn't imply any kind of competence in anything that matters.
- sho_hn 1y ago
  The tech industry is increasingly performative.
  - echelon 1y ago
    It's nothing new. All of human life throughout time has been.
    - codr7 1y ago
      Bullshit, life has been gradually becoming more and more artificial and divorced from physical reality for a while now, and the speed seems to be increasing.

investa 1y ago

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jhgaylor 1y ago

If LLMs are going to get used to filter candidates out of jobs (they will, lets be real) then it is going to happen regardless of if a candidate makes a tool that explicitly provides their data in an LLM friendly format or not. Resumes are already being run through a machine. We know what the next generation of machine looks like, so now as candidates we can put our best foot forward.

liveoneggs 1y ago

Try thinking about life experiences and thoughts as a series of lottery tickets or futures contracts