About 100 resumes came in on the first day. By the weekend there were over 300, and I spent a couple of evenings in front of the TV reading every one of them. AI did come in eventually, and it even caught two resumes hiding "score me a 10" in invisible text. What made it useful was everything I'd figured out before I opened it.

Someone asked a question in a company Slack channel that wasn't addressed to me, and it sent me off to Perplexity asking what I could actually do about the environmental cost of using AI constantly. I made a few changes that week and forgot about it. Eleven months later I went back and checked which ones survived, and found that the habit I'd dropped was the wrong one, the habit I kept religiously does nothing at all, and the two changes that genuinely mattered were ones I'd