Glimpse of an AI Managed World/Interview
This weird “ — ”, we don’t even bother to take it out anymore.
It’s more than meets the eye. Or not. These days, in the world of job seekers, it’s anything but meeting the eye. HR screeners never actually look at you anymore. Instead, they look at a screen where an AI diagnoses what you just said, rather than processing it with their own brains. These recruiters , many of them supposedly “AI natives,” all of them with less than seven years of experience, are obviously just waiting for the AI to synthesise what I said or generate their next question, not afraid of awkward pauses in between. What an absurd scene it must be if someone were watching us right now. It raises a legitimate question: who is evaluating whom? And who is working for whom?
Even now, we can’t even message each other without AI consulting us. Whatever happened to human quality and human decency? I’m guilty of it, of course.
(Even this very writing has been edited for clarity by an AI.)
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And thanks to that, I now have a consulting job where I just talk about what I know — no “real work” required. Just talking for an hour to get paid.
“So, back to job hunting then,” you might think. “What?! You’ve been out of a full-time job for more than a few months? Are you the laziest person in the world?”
It’s tough market out there. I customise not only my CV and cover letter, but also tailor my portfolio for each specific company, with help of AI and still.
One of my most recent experiences was getting a response just 25 minutes after applying.
This is a prime example of a completely AI-driven screening process for an AI QA role. You can see that you cannot fake this or just do a quick browser search; you literally have to be there, experiencing the trial and error firsthand. I could not bullshit my way through this. No wonder it pays $100–$150 an hour.
