This adds another twist, since I'd bet nowadays most CVs are processed (or at least pre-screened) by "AI": we're in a ridiculous situation where applicants feed a few bullet points to AI to generate full-blown polished resumes and motivational letters … and then HR uses different AI to distil all that back to the original bullet points. Interesting times.

This makes me think about adversarial methods of affecting the outcome, where we end up with a "who can hack the metabrain the best" contest. Kind of like the older leet-code system, where obviously software engineering skills were purely secondary to gamesmanship.