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GPT and AI in general causing embarrassing moments for ppl who trust them
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Date: August 8th, 2026 6:08 AM Author: idiotic center giraffe I was reading LinkedIn and came across a long screed from an acquaintance. Apparently he trusted AI to polish the final version of a farewell to his last job and announce that he was looking for a new role--specifically, moving from a leadership position into a regular individual-contributor role.
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
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Date: August 8th, 2026 6:44 AM Author: mind-boggling plum coffee pot striped hyena what is sales leaderhsip and account executive do? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#50053070) |
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Date: August 8th, 2026 7:32 AM Author: idiotic center giraffe They sell software solutions to big (and small) corporations. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#50053080) |
Date: August 8th, 2026 7:07 AM Author: aromatic indirect expression property Is he leaving with no next job lined up? If so, taking another leadership role would be stepping back in, because he would be out of it at that moment.
Agreed that AI did him wrong though. Should have said continuing in a sales leadership role or something. |
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Date: August 8th, 2026 7:43 AM Author: idiotic center giraffe I want to add my own personal story to this. About a year ago, I switched jobs.
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.
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Date: August 8th, 2026 7:56 AM Author: Offensive heaven Is it 15 years ago? All recruiters email first now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#50053086) |
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Date: August 8th, 2026 7:58 AM Author: idiotic center giraffe I do both things. Email and apply. You don't apply anymore? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#50053087) |
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Date: August 8th, 2026 8:13 AM Author: Offensive heaven I got laid off over a month ago and applied for like 300+ jobs. When recruiters wanted to follow up on my application, they always emailed first to schedule a call rather than calling me directly. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#50053097) |
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Date: August 8th, 2026 8:32 AM Author: idiotic center giraffe How many applications did it take you to get hired, and how long were you searching? I'm seeing people who have been unemployed for 1–2 years.
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Date: August 8th, 2026 9:13 AM Author: Offensive heaven I spammed my resume for around 300+ jobs and got interviews for like ~12 of them. Took me less than a month to find a new job. In fact, I got two offers. I have a great resume and a (((prestigious))) STEM degree that get me interviews for software engineering leadership jobs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#50053162) |
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Date: August 8th, 2026 9:46 AM Author: idiotic center giraffe How many FAANG companies have you had on your resume? Would you be willing to help a fellow XOer break into software engineering?
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.
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Date: August 8th, 2026 9:50 AM Author: mildly autistic locus twinkling uncleanness SAD? Is that you son? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#50053196) |
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Date: August 8th, 2026 12:06 PM Author: idiotic center giraffe Not sure what you mean. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#50053389) |
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Date: August 8th, 2026 1:59 PM Author: Offensive heaven I have one big company name on my resume, but it's FAANG-adjacent. Probably never going to do FAANG unless they start hiring remote people again. I've been remote since 2018, and there's no way I'm going back into an office even if it's some BS FAANG job.
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. |
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Date: August 8th, 2026 8:08 AM Author: idiotic center giraffe Anyway, you know that ITE there's 2000 applicants per role, amirite? How many emails do you think recruiters are receiving? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#50053093) |
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Date: August 8th, 2026 8:15 AM Author: Offensive heaven Most companies have software that auto-rejects bad resumes now AFAIK. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#50053100) |
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Date: August 8th, 2026 8:27 AM Author: idiotic center giraffe I've had an ATS reject my resume even though the recruiter independently reached out to me. When I mentioned that my application showed as rejected, he told me to disregard it.
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Date: August 10th, 2026 10:51 AM Author: ""'""'""'"' Btw, that's a great point right there. If GPT or any AI already knows you'll be contacted by email, it can scramble the rest of your info without any issue and you're fully covered--even if they later use that number for a follow-up call.
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Date: August 8th, 2026 1:51 PM Author: Frozen Federal Trailer Park Idea He Suggested lmao at all you retards responding to this guys’s AI generated poast (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#50053600) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 11:42 AM Author: The Penis Linked in is an endless scroll of poasts exactly like this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#50057620) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 1:11 PM Author: ""'""'""'"' Not “generated,” but “edited” and “polished”? Absolutely.
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?
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Date: August 8th, 2026 8:11 AM Author: Trip Fuchsia Internal Respiration Dopamine I can’t remember what LinkedIn posts were like before AI. But they’re all insane slop now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#50053096) |
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Date: August 8th, 2026 8:26 AM Author: idiotic center giraffe I no longer remember non-AI emails or posts. It's been 4 years that everyone uses AI for everything. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#50053104) |
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Date: August 8th, 2026 8:26 AM Author: Hateful home karate It always looked like that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#50053105) |
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Date: August 8th, 2026 1:41 PM Author: idiotic center giraffe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890648&forum_id=2\u0026hid=#50053571) |