AI on Jason

Role Model

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:03:00 -0400

A career knowledge base that builds tailored resumes where every bullet traces back to its source.

Oops! All Ragtime!

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:45:47 -0400

I built RAG in plain SQL before I knew the term existed. Why structured retrieval beat embeddings for my resume data, and where vectors still fit.

How Your Resume Lies While Telling the Truth

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:15:59 -0400

LLMs rarely invent your experience. They inflate it one plausible word at a time, until "contributed to" quietly becomes "led."

Stop Lying to Yourself (and Others)

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:47:43 -0400

The lying resumes had to stop. After enough customizations for enough job descriptions, my resume had started to look like a copy of a copy of a copy: roughly the right overall shape, but not quite recognizable as the same document.

As I’ve been seeking a new job opportunity this time around, I’ve been trying to be selective about where I apply, but also to tailor the resume I submit to highlight how I fit the specifics of each job description. To avoid pulling my hair out, I have also started to rely on an LLM to help. The output typically meets my standards, but one major issue that I’ve started to notice is that my repeated modifications had started to introduce a lot of drift from ground truth and had lost the plot. For example, one position working with a large international bank customer had somewhere picked up the location of Toronto, Ontario. I’ve been to Toronto exactly once, and I never left the airport.