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Journal six months of my career into an AI vault that writes my resumes

Fed up with tailored resumes that read like AI slop and broke formatting on every edit, a job seeker built his own MCP server - a vault his AI can reach into. Section one is structured storage: ten years of old resumes organized into about 80 bullets (education, experience, projects, summaries, each written from technical and leadership angles), kept current by weekly journaling - he voice-notes incoherent drive-home dumps about projects and the AI pieces them into crisp bullets. Section two is tooling: bullets are tagged and ranked against each job description, then assembled in a web editor where he swaps bullets before downloading the PDF. Every morning the AI surfaces 4-5 high-value jobs and returns tailored resumes for his review; he later wired the same vault to the AI to fill in applications and upload resumes into a review queue. Six months: 250 applications, 39 callbacks, 4 offers.

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Run 57 build jobs on the AI — only 11 finish

Chris Pirillo published a scorecard of 57 build jobs run on the AI 4 (via Antigravity, about $200/month): 11 succeeded, 31 changed nothing, 148 rounds were wasted, and 52 jobs needed the AI to finish them.

This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.

I stopped writing my listings and let AI read my buyer messages instead

His shop sells electronics accessories into Thailand and Malaysia, and one wrong word, waterproof instead of water resistant, once cost two months of returns. Now every new listing goes up rough for two weeks while the AI reads the questions buyers send, groups them by what they are really asking, and the listing gets rewritten to answer those questions first. Buyer questions and returns both dropped.

The AI ported my 1993 Amiga game to phones. It is out now.

The creator of Babylonian Twins had the AI port his 2010 game engine and the original 72,758 lines of 1993 assembly into Godot. The Definitive Edition is live on iOS and Android, the 1993 original is free on itch.io, and a fix found from a one star review shipped as version 2.0.3.

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