# Quoting Tom MacWright

> Source: <https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/24/tom-macwright/#atom-everything>
> Published: 2026-06-24 18:13:51+00:00

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

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