Here is the shape of modern hiring, compressed to its absurd essence: a candidate uses GPT-4o to polish their resume. An employer uses GPT-4o to screen it. The machine evaluates the machine's work and finds it excellent. The human — whose experience, judgment, and career were supposed to be the point — is a formatting intermediary between two API calls.
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A portrait composition of a vast crystalline lattice suspended above an arid Australian plain at dusk, each node in the lattice glowing with a different warm hue — amber, coral, gold — representing many open minds converging. Thin threads of light connect the nodes in recursive loops, forming a shimmering shared latent space. Below, the red earth radiates heat haze. Style: cinematic concept art, deep warm palette against a violet sky, volumetric light, painterly brushstrokes with sharp geometric detail in the lattice. 9:16 portrait orientation.