‘I Applied to 2,843 Roles’: The Rise of AI-Powered Job Application Bots

I feel like this is a great illustration of how the theoretical potential of AI appears so high, but also how in practice, realizing that potential is still so far off as to show more shortcomings in AI than capacity. And yet, folks are jumping in with both feet for the promise of a faster, inferior experience.

TL;DR: This bot helped the writer apply to 17 jobs in one hour, but it also told some of them that he lived in Italy rather than the US, used the wrong employer's name in a cover letter, couldn't navigate certain applications, and required close supervision at all times. The bot user referenced in the title, who applied to nearly 3,000 jobs, got only 4 interviews. And the writer emergency terminated a Tom's Guide application because he actually likes them and didn't want to submit a low-quality application. So that's about how well it works.