Quoting Tom MacWright

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.

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