{"slug": "quoting-tom-macwright", "title": "Quoting Tom MacWright", "summary": "Tom MacWright reports seeing job applications that are clearly cowritten by an LLM, linking to LLM-generated portfolios and GitHub projects with LLM-generated commit messages. He argues that such applications are generic and impersonal, revealing nothing about the candidate beyond their use of particular tools.", "body_md": "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. [...]\n\nMy other reaction is that\n\nI don't know anything about these people.They haven't put themselves out there. They haven't said anything true. [...]\n\nThe perfected, generated, prompted resume is generic and impersonal. It tells me nothing about this person, other than that they use particular tools.\n\n— [Tom MacWright](https://macwright.com/2026/06/24/accidental-anonymity.html), Accidental anonymity\n\nTags: [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)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-tom-macwright", "canonical_source": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/24/tom-macwright/#atom-everything", "published_at": "2026-06-24 18:13:51+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-24 18:18:57.205685+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Tom MacWright"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-tom-macwright", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-tom-macwright.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-tom-macwright.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-tom-macwright.jsonld"}}