Listen, I understand why you need us to create new branches when building but can I just say, it's wonky AF?! It never works, it's so frustrating, and it shouldn't cause this much time and pain in the middle of a build.
Are you looking into this? How do I get any help around it?
Curious what you all are noticing on your end.
I've been doing this twenty years and the last six months feel different. Resumes are looking more and more the same....AI generated, same bullets, same metrics, same "led cross functional initiative that drove 30% improvement" energy on basically every one.
The candidates catching my eye lately are the ones bringing actual proof. Stuff like:
And the hiring managers I work with seem to be reacting to it. Faster yessses. More interest at the top of funnel.
Is anyone else seeing this on your end? Or is it just my pile?
Wondering if this is becoming the new bar or if it's a moment that'll pass once everyone catches up : )
If you wrote your own resume, you're already at a disadvantage. New research out of UMD and Ohio State puts a number on it: AI-written resumes are up to 82% more likely to survive AI screening.
So it's not just about your experience anymore, it's about how closely your resume matches what the system expects to read.
Which means somewhere right now, a genuinely great candidate is getting filtered out for something as simple as sounding too human.
That's the part that should bother people.
We've basically created a loop where AI helps write the resume, AI evaluates the resume, and the outcome is based on how well someone fits that pattern. It doesn't necessarily reward better work. It rewards better formatting of that work.
And the people who lose in that system aren't always less qualified. They're often the ones who didn't optimize themselves to sound perfect through AI.
So the question becomes: what actually cuts through that?
It's not another version of the same resume.
It's what other people say about working with you, how they experienced your impact, consistently, across time. Not one reference call at the end, but a pattern you can actually see.
That's the part that's much harder to manufacture, and probably where hiring starts shifting whether we admit it or not.
And if you're in a job search right now wondering why you're not hearing back, this might be part of the answer.
If your process is AI reading AI, I'd at least be asking whether it's finding the best candidates or just the best-written ones.
Full article here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00462