The printing press gave us more books than we could read. The internet gave us more information than we could process. AI has given us more applications, more outreach, more candidates — than any human can evaluate.
The pattern is always the same. A new tool democratizes access, floods the channel, and collapses the signal. The winners in each era are never the ones who produce the most. They are the ones who figured out how to cut through.
Hiring is the latest channel to collapse. AI writes the CVs. AI screens the CVs. Somewhere in that loop, the actual human gets lost.