Quoting Tom MacWright
Simon Willison · Simon Willison · 2026-06-24
Simon Willison amplifies Tom MacWright's observation that job applicants submitting fully AI-generated materials—resume, portfolio site, and GitHub projects all LLM-produced—render themselves effectively anonymous and tell hiring managers nothing meaningful about who they are.
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Topics: ai-misusehiringllm-generated-contentauthenticity
Claims
- A pattern has emerged in job applications where the resume, portfolio site, and GitHub projects are all LLM-generated, including the commit messages.
- Fully AI-generated application stacks are 'generic and impersonal' and convey only that the applicant uses particular tools, nothing about the person.
- AI-generated materials create an 'accidental anonymity' that defeats the purpose of a job application by removing any authentic signal about the candidate.
Key quotes
The perfected, generated, prompted resume is generic and impersonal. It tells me nothing about this person, other than that they use particular tools.
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.