AI auto-applications flood a job post with 3,000 applicants, and 90% are junk
leveragedupside · x · 2026-07-24
A quoted post says one job listing drew 3,000 applicants, but 90% were unusable because candidates used AI to auto-apply at scale. The poster argues this will increasingly force companies back toward human relationships—and more broadly toward “agents fighting agents” as a defense against AI-powered bad actors.
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