Hiring is becoming a battle between AI-written resumes and AI screeners

Comfortable_Damage20 · reddit · 2026-07-24

The post argues that hiring is turning into “two AIs lying to each other”: candidates use LLMs to write resumes and cover letters, while companies use AI screeners to rank applications.
That dynamic removes humans from much of the early filtering, leaving the CV as a weaker signal than before.
The author cites a claim that around 60% of applicants in the UK and US already use AI in the process.
The only part that still seems hard to automate is live demonstration of the skill during the interview, where keyword stuffing falls apart quickly.

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