How AI is generating a 'sea of sameness' in job applications

Its always this way. Long ago I used to work on HR systems of Large Corp. They used to talk about McDonaldization of jobs. And that was almost 20-25 years back.

Variety is required to cope with Change and survive Change. But large orgs learnt long ago to avoid getting involved anything that changes too fast.

As a result most of their employee resemble employees of McDonalds. Even Steve Jobs can die but the show goes on. Thats by design.

To handle Change and in anything too unpredictable and chaotic the strategy of Large orgs has always been to either offload that to Govt or to use smaller firms. And smaller firms survive based on the Networks of their founders. Who you know and how you get along with them makes a bigger diff than whats on the resume.

[Recycling a comment from earlier this month]

> The main use case for LLMs remains blithering.

And in a close second-place, to cheaply/easily counterfeit signals that we are/were treating as indicators of human things like "intelligence", "time-investment", "emotional involvement", "distinct identity", etc.

I wonder how many traditional cover-letters / essays will vanish because the format has been so debased it doesn't mean anything, and people will say: "Just give me the core bullet-points."