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Best of the Web

Great programming articles you may have missed

Issue: 23.6 (November/December 2025)
Author: Marc Zeedar
Author Bio: Marc taught himself programming in high school when he bought his first computer but had no money for software. He's had fun learning ever since.
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Here I share links to interesting programming-related articles from around the web. Note that these may not have anything to do with Xojo, and I don't necessarily advocate the opinions shared—I simply think they're worth reading for a broader perspective.

The A.I. Black Hole Swallowing Job Seekers

Tim Rogers (https://slate.com/technology/2025/10/job-search-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-resume-cover-letter.html)

Excerpt: The job market is a mess. The old system is broken and a functioning replacement has yet to fully emerge. We're stuck in the between years—a dystopian digital doomscape that has job seekers and hirers picking through a landfill of A.I.-generated garbage and longing for the halcyon days of an analog past.

Some people take a more charitable view of the job market. A veteran job coach I'm working with at an outplacement agency says, "It's not broken; it's just different." But the main difference I've noticed is that the old system worked, and this one doesn't. A.I. is advancing faster than our ability to process it. It's overloading outdated applicant tracking systems—aging software designed to sort, rank, and track job applicants online—with a firehose of generative slop, polluting the job market with A.I.-written resumes, and creating so much noise that quality signal gets lost in the static.

You're Getting 'Screen Time' Wrong

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