Tom MacWright is rejecting job applicants he cannot see. The applications arrive fully formed: LLM-written cover letters linking to LLM-generated portfolio sites, linking to LLM-generated GitHub repos, with LLM-generated commit histories. The stack is complete. The person is absent.
MacWright's diagnosis is precise and worth reading in full: the output is not bad, it is generic. It signals tool use, not capability, judgment, or identity. He knows these candidates operate AI tools. He knows nothing else. That is the hiring problem in one sentence.
The piece matters because it names the mechanism, not just the symptom. Candidates optimizing for resume screening have accidentally optimized themselves out of human evaluation. Read the original at macwright.com for his framing of what 'putting yourself out there' actually requires now.
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