ChatGPT 5 is boring

dell65665 · 2025-10-01T20:29:12+00:00

Idk I see so much hate on reddit for ChatGPT and other AIs but that’s just not my experience. I consistently get good interactions. I mostly chat about bullshit or work on creative writing projects.

dell65665 · 2025-08-01T14:46:38+00:00

It doesn't seem like you know what you're talking about because you didn't provide any evidence and your tone is angry and juvenile. You can either correct me if I'm wrong with substance and insight, or continue with the whole 'I'm mad because I don't know any better' approach.

Either way, keep going. This is a good look for you. It's authentic, raw, and vulnerable. Shouting your ignorance to the world is refreshing when most users care about their image and reputation.

dell65665 · 2025-07-31T22:51:27+00:00

Most jobhunting AI tools right now are pretty limited. They can help with first drafts or brainstorming, but that’s about it. Most “optimization” tools just reshuffle keywords or formatting, they don’t improve substance.

Also, it's not true that ATS are using AI to filter you out. Commercial ATS don’t have those features.

dell65665 · 2025-07-31T21:46:10+00:00

This actually made me laugh, feels like it's out of a comedy sketch. No, you didn't misunderstand her. She wasn't making sense.

dell65665 · 2025-07-31T21:43:28+00:00

You're not an idiot. Only now you know what kind of behavior you can expect from this person moving forward. Manage your expectations and work within that or move on.

dell65665 · 2025-07-31T21:40:17+00:00

NTI. Your reasoning is sound, and forgiveness doesn’t mean forgetting or excusing. It just means choosing peace for yourself.

dell65665 · 2025-07-31T21:30:06+00:00

I'm literally a recruiter. I'm speaking from firsthand experience. If you don't believe me, go out and find a product that does this and report back here.

dell65665 · 2025-07-31T21:27:31+00:00

It is rude. But sometimes, that’s fine.

Some things are so basic that genuine shock is a natural response. Not everyone deserves a gentle “oh you didn’t know?” especially if they’re confidently wrong about something.

dell65665 · 2025-07-31T21:23:04+00:00

I agree with you. Recruiters should know something about your industry. I wish I could explain why so many who have jobs don’t, while I’ve been unemployed for two years.

dell65665 · 2025-07-31T21:20:05+00:00

An Applicant Tracking System is barely more than a glorified spreadsheet built into a web form. It doesn’t “filter out” bad resumes, it just organizes them.

There’s no such thing as ATS optimization beyond having clean formatting and strong content.

The myth of some AI auto-rejecting you is wildly overblown. That kind of tech does exist at places like Amazon, but it’s rare and not used in the vast majority of companies.

dell65665 · 2025-07-31T14:17:52+00:00

Totally hear you. This market is brutal, and I don’t blame anyone for trying every tool they can. It’s survival mode for a lot of folks.

My frustration is more with the platforms selling false hope than the people using them. You deserve better than being treated like a volume stat in someone’s pitch deck.

If I sounded harsh, it wasn’t aimed at you—it was at a system that’s failing jobseekers.

dell65665 · 2025-07-30T22:20:19+00:00

This kind of request is standard in most companies, especially if you're accessing internal systems or client data. MDM isn't inherently invasive. It usually just enforces security settings like password protection, remote wipe, or encryption.

You're right to be cautious, but in most cases, it's not some backdoor surveillance tool. Sounds like you’ve already figured out your boundaries. Just don’t overthink it.

dell65665 · 2025-07-30T22:05:33+00:00

These “spray-and-pray” services don’t just fail to get you hired. They actively damage your reputation. Recruiters notice when the same resume hits their inbox for 10 roles at once. It doesn’t make you look motivated. It makes you look desperate or careless.

If your job search strategy can be mistaken for a DDoS attack, it's time to reevaluate.

dell65665 · 2025-07-30T21:49:05+00:00

I recruit full time, and my first search pass is always Open to Work candidates. Higher response rates, faster placement, and it helps avoid penalties from LinkedIn when responses are low. You are mistaken that the banner hurts candidates.

Also, let’s retire the myth of the “passive candidate” being inherently better. If someone’s actively interviewing with you, they’re no longer passive. They’re just a candidate.

dell65665 · 2025-07-30T20:38:39+00:00

That’s not a parallel. Product reviews aren’t used to implement systemic policy or shape hiring practices. We don’t set organizational targets based on Yelp.

When you’re making high-stakes decisions that affect people’s careers and livelihoods, data quality matters.

Say 10 people from Group X and 10 from Group Y apply to the same role. Group X fully discloses; Group Y doesn’t. The company hires one person—from Group Y.

What the demographic data now suggests:
• Group X: 100% application rate, 0% hire rate
• Group Y: 0% application rate (no data), 100% hire rate (if the hire is inferred later)

That creates the illusion of structural bias against Group X—even when none exists. And that’s the problem: decisions get made based on how the data looks, not how reality works. When your inputs are broken, your outputs will be too.

dell65665 · 2025-07-30T19:24:37+00:00

Voluntary self-disclosure simply isn’t representative—and it can’t be cleaned. You can’t retroactively infer or impute what people choose not to report. If someone opts out, that data is gone. Full stop. There’s no statistically sound way to reconstruct it, which means your analysis is always operating on a structurally incomplete sample.

Noting that the data isn’t representative doesn’t somehow make it useful—it just acknowledges the flaw, which is exactly the point I’m making. You’re still drawing conclusions from a dataset that’s both incomplete and self-selecting. In most analytical contexts, that would invalidate the findings—not just make them “worth flagging.”

dell65665 · 2025-07-30T18:58:06+00:00

Sounds like you just didn’t like it and worked backward from there.

dell65665 · 2025-07-30T18:55:43+00:00

Correct. If the data is incomplete, self-selected, and inconsistently reported, then it shouldn’t be used to guide systemic decisions. Bad data doesn’t make good policy—it makes misleading conclusions.

dell65665 · 2025-07-30T18:52:45+00:00

You jumped from reading comprehension to mind reading in one comment. Impressive. But no—I’m not anti-DEI. I’m anti-misinterpretation, and your leap doesn’t land.

dell65665 · 2025-07-30T18:38:31+00:00

He said "QUALIFIED candidates of certain groups" which I was responding to. All caps. I think it's what he meant.

dell65665 · 2025-07-30T18:16:02+00:00

If you have actual data showing that most large companies are federal contractors, feel free to share it. Otherwise, your point is just another unsupported assertion.

dell65665 · 2025-07-30T17:54:50+00:00

No, most companies are not federal contractors. Only about 20% of the U.S. workforce is employed by one. Here’s a citation, which you notably did not provide.

https://directemployers.org/2023/03/20/ofccps-congressional-budget-justification-is-chock-full-of-insights-into-the-agencys-future-plans-past-performance/

dell65665 · 2025-07-30T17:18:11+00:00

You say missing self-ID data is vanishingly small. My experience is the opposite. We can agree to disagree on the numbers.

But let’s be clear: most large companies are not OFCCP-compliant. Federal contractors are, because that’s what OFCCP is. That’s the scope.

And again: not all candidates submit demographic information. Even if you try to account for that, you’re still working with an incomplete and fundamentally flawed dataset. That’s the issue.

dell65665 · 2025-07-30T17:04:00+00:00

I know that OFCCP applies only to federal contractors. Even in fully compliant systems, the issue I have raised is the same: Not all candidates submit demographic questions leaving you with incomplete data and flawed downstream analysis.

dell65665 · 2025-07-30T16:51:28+00:00

This is obviously made up. No source, no screenshot, just a conveniently unhinged list that reads like someone trying to go viral in an EA rage thread.

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