jhgaylor (u/jhgaylor)

jhgaylor commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

jhgaylor · 3 months ago

I'm Jake. I'm a product minded startup engineer. I'd love to explore how I can help your org ship faster and use data to drive product development.

Location: Cary, MS

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: AI Product Engineering, Data Driven Product Development, Kubernetes, AWS, Polyglot Programmer

Résumé/CV: https://jakegaylor.com

Email: jhgaylor@gmail.com

jhgaylor commented on Anthropic AI Policy for Application · Posted by u/bicepjai

jhgaylor · 4 months ago

I am not a particularly good writer, so I started using llms to help me write. At first that was by having the llm convert my rough draft into something ready for editing. As I edited a bunch of this work I found it still wasn’t something I wanted to put my name on.

Now I use llms to help me research, outline, refine vocabulary and grade my work but also have stopped letting it speak for me. I’m much happier with the result.

jhgaylor commented on Show HN: Klavis AI – Open-source MCP integration for AI applications github.com/Klavis-AI/klav... · Posted by u/wirehack

rc_mob · 4 months ago

What is MCP?

jhgaylor · 4 months ago

MCP is a new protocol from anthropic to standardize sharing tools and context with LLMs. Before, the tool calling api from openai was standard but tool makers all built their own mechanisms for defining and sharing tools.

It's a bit of a stretch but MCP is to LLM enabled applications what REST is to web applications.

What was happening before was if you built tools using langchain, you'd have to rewrite them for crewai, cursor, etc. Now, we have a way to share tools, resources, and prompts with applications built using different frameworks.

jhgaylor commented on Show HN: My AI Native Resume ai.jakegaylor.com/... · Posted by u/jhgaylor

jeremy_k · 4 months ago

I just wanted to say thank you for these replies. I was also confused by the top of this comment chain as I think that author misunderstood what the point of this project this. I wanted to jump in and say something to the effect of "The OP (Jake) has clearly shown he has the aptitude to accomplish tasks by building this tool" but you've done that far better than I could have. Thanks again.

jhgaylor · 4 months ago

I was trying to find a way to thank xpe more privately but this is evidence I should just go ahead and do it. So, thank you too.

Thanks xpe, I appreciate you jumping in here. I was struggling to find the words here and I think you did a wonderful job both championing the intent of the post as well as articulating why I found it difficult to engage. You've given me tools to use going forward.

jhgaylor commented on Show HN: My AI Native Resume ai.jakegaylor.com/... · Posted by u/jhgaylor

pdabbadabba · 4 months ago

As someone who only casually follows this space, I'm not sure what to think. This is clever, but can someone explain whether this makes any practical sense? Is there any chance that a recruiter's AI will actually consume this service? Wouldn't it have to be manually configured to do so?

Maybe this anticipates a future where AIs discover and consume these services automatically?

Of course, even if this isn't practically useful, it's cool and maybe will help this person to stand out, at least insofar as it demonstrated that Jake is a clever person who knows how to use MCP.

jhgaylor · 4 months ago

I ended up building the first couple of iterations of this tool just to stop entering the same information into Claude for every new conversation.

By connecting an assistant to a job searching api, a database, and context about myself I am able to create a prompt such as "find interesting jobs for jake. maybe something in the ai space?" and in a few minutes I can browse a curated list of potential job matches.

By connecting the assistant to text to speech and speech to text tools and context about myself I can provide a the job description in my prompt and request the assistant play the role of an interviewer. This has been much nicer than practicing in the mirror.

I think that for the next few weeks/months that a hiring team connecting to my mcp server will play out well for me but I think you're in the right ball park. It will be because I was able to show that I can extract value from technology.

jhgaylor commented on Show HN: My AI Native Resume ai.jakegaylor.com/... · Posted by u/jhgaylor

nbbaier · 4 months ago

I planned to do exactly this this week! Man, this is good inspiration

jhgaylor · 4 months ago

My github has several repos that might help you get started if you're working in Typescript or Dart. This one for example should get you spun up with the whole stack pretty quickly https://github.com/jhgaylor/example-candidate-mcp-server.

jhgaylor commented on Show HN: My AI Native Resume ai.jakegaylor.com/... · Posted by u/jhgaylor

neilv · 4 months ago

There's a meta facet to this, demonstrating that one can do something in AI, and also a gimmick to get more attention to one's resume.

Separate from the meta, and discussing only face value, the `candidate-info://website-text` has a bit of marketing puffery like we don't usually see on resumes. I'm wondering whether that's intended to influence the AI tool behavior.

As a simpler solution for many tech workers to get their info out there and easily AI-accessible, what about a plain static XML file Semantic Web-like markup of the pertinent resume information, in terms of some standard ontology. Which information you declare to be true. And then "AI" and other tools works from that? It could be under a `/.well-known/` URL, and anywhere else you can put or interchange an XML file.

jhgaylor · 4 months ago

> the `candidate-info://website-text` has a bit of marketing puffery like we don't usually see on resumes. I'm wondering whether that's intended to influence the AI tool behavior.

I actually wrote the marketing for the humans. That site predates this ai native resume. My thinking is that by putting a little sell into my site I can show off another aspect of my skillset. I used to have a standard bio site with a portfolio but it was a wall of text and needed a refresher.

> As a simpler solution

llms.txt seems to work pretty well. I am sure there are ways to increase the quality of an llms.txt but I started by simply joining all the text data I already had together and asking an llm to make an llms.txt out of it. From there I've been "manually" editing it. Often with Claude's help.

> It could be under a `/.well-known/` URL

I am hoping we start to see a lot more use of this. We already have a pretty good set of tools to do discovery so let's use them.

jhgaylor commented on Show HN: My AI Native Resume ai.jakegaylor.com/... · Posted by u/jhgaylor

AIPedant · 4 months ago

> send you recordings of "me" answering your questions.

Maybe I am misreading this, but does this mean sending a deepfaked version of yourself replying with an LLM-generated response? If I were the hiring manager and found out about this, you would not be invited to an interview.

jhgaylor · 4 months ago

That's what I mean but I wouldn't represent it as being me the human speaking. We can just upgrade from text to text to speech to speech (or any mixture) while still using the LLM. And for style, I can use my voice instead of Microsoft Sam.

jhgaylor commented on Show HN: My AI Native Resume ai.jakegaylor.com/... · Posted by u/jhgaylor

saretup · 4 months ago

Every new format or protocol gets used to display someone’s resume at least once (http://www.rleonardi.com/interactive-resume/).

Congrats on getting there for MCP resume before anyone else :)

jhgaylor · 4 months ago

I think if you write the first blog post about this you get to name the law.

jhgaylor commented on Show HN: My AI Native Resume ai.jakegaylor.com/... · Posted by u/jhgaylor

jerf · 4 months ago

So, first of all, all props to the author for getting to this part of the commons first and setting up shop. In six months to a year this will probably be of no utility because the spammers will have drained the utility out, but in the meantime, for today's job search, a very clever differentiator.

I also find it an amazing judo-like usage of the way LLMs are so convincing to people with their confidence. By the time the recruiter realizes that the testimonial they read was a sort-of-close vector composite of the real ones given and the "vibe resume"d skills list they got was just not quite right, you'll have the job. It's not the jhgaylor's fault recruiters believe LLMs.

And honestly any professional recruiter or hiring agent who needs an AI, provided by the candidate no less(!), to interrogate (almost literally!) a resume is pretty just much asking for it.

jhgaylor · 4 months ago

Sort of ironic given I wrote an interface to a robot, but I hate that robots are going to destroy this space, or rather, never give it space to exist.

I think even if no hiring manager ever connects to my mcp server I will still find plenty of value from this tool. I can connect hirebase.org and notion.com and my mcp and get claude to create a database of interesting jobs that might be a good fit for me. I can connect Speech to Text (and Text to Speech) and do mock interviews. I can import a job description and a couple of cover letters and get a customized letter for this job that gives me something other than a blank page to start with.