dawie

Hi HN,

Longtime HN user here (since 2007)

I’m mapping practical ways HN uses AI in job searches—what truly moved the needle vs. what didn’t.

If you’re willing, please share: - Role/seniority/region (optional) - Top 1–2 AI workflows that helped, and the tools/models you used (incl. resume/cover-letter products) - Tools you used like Jobscan, Rezi Resume.io if anu - Where it helped most (research, resume tailoring, outreach) - Hiring managers/recruiters: how do AI-shaped applications read to you?

I’ll post an anonymized summary in ~2 weeks. Short anonymous Google Form will be in the first comment. Contact info is in my profile for anyone open to a deeper chat.

I’ve worked in both corporate and startup settings and keep noticing that many talented developers I meet don’t use AI tools at all — not even for small things like boilerplate code, tests, or docs.

Why? Concerns about security or IP? Don’t trust the quality? Slows you down instead of helping? Just don’t see the value?

If you don’t use AI tools (or tried and stopped), I’d love to hear your reasons. If you do use them, what convinced you?

It appears that Cloudflare has had a known billing issue for more than 6 months now and there is no way to get in touch with support. Is anyone else having issues?

I can't update DNS and they have basically blocked my domain and there is no way to unblock it, even for other company's services on thier network...

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One hack that has worked really well for me has been to hire staff.

The moment you have an employee, you need to give them work to do.

This has always had a massive impact on my productivity.