In the last few months, I've started to see [job applications] that were clearly cowritten by an LLM, link to an LLM-generated portfolio site, which then links to LLM-generated GitHub projects, with purely LLM-generated commit messages. [...]
My other reaction is that
I don't know anything about these people.They haven't put themselves out there. They haven't said anything true. [...]
The perfected, generated, prompted resume is generic and impersonal. It tells me nothing about this person, other than that they use particular tools.
— [Tom MacWright](https://macwright.com/2026/06/24/accidental-anonymity.html), Accidental anonymity
Tags: [careers](https://simonwillison.net/tags/careers), [ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai), [tom-macwright](https://simonwillison.net/tags/tom-macwright), [ai-misuse](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-misuse)
source & further reading
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