My brother-in-law landed a job interview for two reasons:
1. He used AI to optimize his resume keywords for the ATS scanner
2. He dropped a bullet under Skills that read: "bicycle repair, eccentric ideating, frolicking amongst foliage and critters, and patriotism"
Guess which one they asked him about.
AI has a personality, but it’s just the average of everything it knows, and everybody's has the same one. Your quirks, your references, the weird asides you put in in parentheses — your ✨authenticity✨ — that’s the last remaining “moat” to stand out in anything you produce.
That's one of 5 things I learned making this video essay.
I spent a day yapping with my team at Tenex (people who are hired FOR their AI skills how they avoid making slop with it) to try and figure out: Why do people drift from using AI for grunt work to completely outsourcing their thinking to it?
The point here isn't as simple as "AI Bad" -- it's about how to put your thinking cap back on!
Tap in and tell me if there's a pointer I missed.