She’s probably right honestly. When in rome, do as the romans do, even if rome is burning and all they’re doing is standing around playing music while it does.

OK, so, I’m warning you, the rest of this comment is going to descend into darkly cynical, the sky is falling, the world is ending pessimistic ranting. Take it or leave it, I don’t care, I need to vent how I feel about the shitty fucking state of the world for the working class right now.

So listen, AI is a technology designed by companies like Google and Apple that despite allegedly selling technology and software have in reality become gigantic advertising and marketing companies. They designed these AI for many purposes but chief among them is that they want it to do the most important thing any advertising and marketing can do which is convince you of things whether they are true or false, and the first thing they want to do is convince you AI itself is useful whether that is true or false.

And the kicker is, not only did it do a spectacularly good job at convincing people of that already, it IS actually useful… at exactly what they designed it to do, which is convince people of things whether they are true or false. AI is genuinely fucking great at it. Often too good.

If you want to use AI to convince people of things, fucking go for it. Making a resume is all about selling yourself and convincing people you’re worth hiring. Most companies are already using AI for this on their own side, and that should tell you something significant right there, they don’t give a shit about you. But don’t worry about that, AI is good at convincing itself of things too, and once you’re through the AI filters, at least some of the feeble meatbag HR brains you will be attacking with it will stand no more chance than they do against the tech giants. And just like they do, it enables you to use quantity over quality. Just fucking AI spam you sloppy resume everywhere you can. Spam dozens of copies of it, who gives a shit, companies don’t give a shit, they’ve told us they’re all “AI first” anyway. Good sensible companies are so few and far between, and usually they don’t even pay as well as the fucking idiot garbage fire companies. For every competent HR person at a good sensible company who quite rightfully rejects your shitty resume, there’s some garbage fire who can be suckered into assigning your warm body to some useless task if you just happen to bullseye right through the eye of their needle, and you just brute force that shit by throwing so many resumes at the problem that one of them is bound to go in through sheer statistics alone. And then next time you (or AI) writes your resume, you’ll have “experience” to put on it, and being such a shitbag makes you feel bad, maybe with a bit more experience you’ll eventually find your way to a good sensible company eventually (provided you find the idea of not having to be such a shitbag appealing and willing to take the pay cut that non-shitbags are required to suffer)

If you want to use AI to get actual work done, or learn something real, you’re playing russian roulette and probably wasting your time with AI in the long run. It may accidentally be useful from time to time, and when it’s the company’s time you’re wasting who gives a shit (they clearly don’t) but it’s going to struggle to keep up with real needs. But for convincing people of things? It’s really pretty remarkable how good it is. Might as well take advantage of it. Use the tool for the job it’s designed for. A screwdriver’s a good tool for putting screws into things, but it’s not a very good hammer and it’s a fucking awful table saw.