This is what AI “polished” for him:

“Now, I’m officially diving deep into my search for my next step. Over the last 8 years, I’ve loved leading and scaling high-performing sales teams, but I'm ultimately looking for a high-impact role where I can drive serious growth - whether that’s stepping back into a Sales Leadership capacity or driving revenue directly as an Enterprise Account Executive.”

“Whether that’s stepping back into a Sales Leadership capacity..” ??

Stepping back into leadership after spending the last eight years leading sales teams?

Or is he actually stepping **out of** leadership and into an Enterprise AE role?

The funniest part is that the AI didn't invent some obvious factual error. It produced something that *sounds* polished and corporate enough that you might skim right past it. But the actual sentence contradicts the story he's trying to tell.

We all thought AI was going to replace our jobs.

Imagine if it did.

This is what it looks like when you let the machine write your professional history and don't bother checking every word.

PS. I let AI polish this because I'm lazy. Let me know if it fucked up anywhere. Tyia

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2#50053065)

Agreed that AI did him wrong though. Should have said continuing in a sales leadership role or something.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2#50053072)

I wrote my resume myself and made sure all the information was correct. I only ran it through GPT because I was too lazy to format it properly myself. I wanted it to look cleaner and more professional, and honestly, it did a pretty good job. It probably saved me an hour or two compared with using another tool to format everything and make it look crisp.

I read through the entire resume afterward. Everything looked correct.

I sent out about 10 applications.

It was only one or two months later that I realized what it had done.

My phone number was at the top, so I only glanced at it quickly. It ended in, say, 4651. GPT had changed it to 4650.

A single digit.

Every resume I had sent out contained the wrong phone number.

If a recruiter tried to call me, I simply never received the call. I have no idea how many opportunities I might have lost because of that one fucking digit.

So yes, check everything.

Don't assume that because an AI tool presents something confidently and professionally, it has preserved your information accurately. It can introduce a tiny error that looks completely harmless—and that tiny error can have real consequences.

I trusted it to format my resume, and it did so, but with a twist.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2#50053084)

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2#50053114)

I'm currently working through CS50 and really enjoying the grind. I feel like learning to code has changed the way my brain works. Somehow, the code even worked its way into my unconscious mind and helped me resolve a mystery I’d been carrying for 20 years. I felt the “click” in my head while working on recursion.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2#50053194)

It's harder today to break into software engineering without a STEM degree or a significant amount of relevant experience. The only exceptions are diversity hires, and even they're on shaky ground these days. When I graduated, I could've gotten a coding job with just CS on my resume, no internships needed. But today you need internships every year, need to desperately spam your resume, etc. even if you have a CS degree. Going to a (((prestigious))) school helped me, but the value of a new degree is lower today.

What I'm basically trying to say is that I personally can do virtually nothing to help you get into the industry. 7+ years ago you had a shot when jobs were abundant, but today the job market is very rough for people with non-standard backgrounds. A lot of people I know with non-standard backgrounds are either long-term unemployed or have outright given up on software as a career and moved on to other types of work.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2#50053639)

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2#50053108)

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2#50057449)

If you have a free assistant where you can just spit out your ideas and have it turn them into something decent-sounding, are you really going to invest the time to do it all yourself?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2#50057922)