...I was disgusted by what that filtering did to resume writing, the obvious pandering that became necessary (or, at least, that people often rightly assumed was necessary) in order to hope your resume got looked at by a human being, with people trying to pack in as many annoying buzzwords and "action phrases" as they could.

Having retired about nine months ago, and working at my previous job for five years, I didn't have to deal with the new AI version of this, and I'm so glad I probably never will.

Deviating a little from tradition, I once put
Synopsis
at the top of my resume, meaning "This is a synopsis of my career to date"
(loaded with those keywords)
Recruiter asked me how long I worked at Synopsis.

I'm a cynic. I don't see a glass as half-empty or half-full.
Just half-broken.

When even thinking is replaced by AI, as students are doing "to pass exams" then what does that mean?

AI is always backward looking, and since one definition of "meaning" conveyed by stories is:
“Stories create meaning as they touch our knowledge, experience, and as we process them with our minds and emotions.” then,

I see a loss of "meaning" in life, since the stories we read already have no basis in experience, minds and emotions.
We're relating to a big alphabet soup filtered to agree with our taste, or our "Prompts".

Joseph Conrad wrote:

To arrest, for the space of a breath, the hands busy about the work of the earth, and compel men entranced by the sight of distant goals to glance for a moment at the surrounding vision of form and colour, of sunshine and shadows; to make them pause for a look, for a sigh, for a smile — such is the aim, difficult and evanescent, and reserved only for a very few to achieve. But sometimes, by the deserving and the fortunate, even that task is accomplished. And when it is accomplished — behold! — all the truth of life is there: a moment of vision, a sigh, a smile — and the return to an eternal rest.

Only to find out the applicants were mostly incoherent about their projects. It was over video conferencing, and we wondered if they were being coached during the call.

Last week (I think) I started getting e-mails from a major aerospace company due to a resume I have on indeed.com. They repeatedly ask me about accepting a structure mechanic job in the Carolinas. Problem is, actually two of them, first, I'm an avionics tech not a structure mechanic, second, I ALREADY WORK FOR THEIR COMPANY.

It means that the AI doesn't have access to the employee database.

Cheers!