Comment by AdieuToLogic
9 hours ago
From the well-written article:
I have spent months adjusting my resume, applying for all
jobs where my skill set may be of use, building
proof-of-concepts using Claude, and doing cold outreach to
anyone who may be interested in my potential products or my
services. The well has gone dry.
A major quandary companies are finding themselves in is "resume fraud", which can be defined here as being inundated with applicants only to find 99%+ have used GenAI to produce a bogus work history tuned to satisfy the job posting. To the point where many companies simply give up trying to identify "real" applicants via online submissions.
It is analogous to email spam in the 90's, before anti-spam technology was mature.
They wanna filter the candidates who used GenAI and then force the GenAI on the existing employees. Makes total sense.
Yeah it's pretty bad. Can't even browse projects on Reddit because a lot of them are just slop
Oddly enough, the solution lies in what was previously replaced; staffing firms.
Staffing companies have recruiters which vet candidates to varying degrees of success. At minimum, they establish the candidate:
- is a human
- lives where they claim to live
- has worked where they claim to have worked
- has eligibility to work for one or more of their clients
If nothing else, the above eliminates much of the "99% resume fraud" problem companies are dealing with now.
I've been thinking this for a while now, but I feel like especially with the rise of crazy salaries in AI research, it's time for software development to have its agency moment. Just like athletes and actors, I think the industry might be better off if there were reputable agents with a portfolio of people they represent, and something the equivalent of a casting director at companies instead of the current "cram leetcode" mode of evaluation.
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