Policy Statement on AI Usage

AI and my job application process:

Hello! This document exists for transparency around how I use AI in my job application process. If you would like to see how Gemini may have influenced how I have written my cover letter or adjusted my resume, please see this link to a list of recently completed workflow runs and click the recent runs that contain the name of your company and the date that matches the one in the filename of the resume I applied with. You can find a short description of my exact process under the section titled, “My end-to-end RaC workflow ” in my post, “DevOps Your Job Hunt with GitHub Actions and the Google Gemini API For Fast-Feedback ”.

In the course of applying to the position, I may have also used one or more of the following AI tools:

• GitHub Copilot
• Perplexity.ai

My general approach to the use of AI

I generally take two, largely similar approaches to my use of AI. The first, which is already familiar to most, is that I see it as another tool in a toolbox akin to a Google search or reading through responses on StackOverflow. My second approach is to treat it like the person who purports themselves as THE expert in the room who is often right, but just as often wrong. I find this second approach helps me treat AI as a, “rubber duck” to help me identify silly mistakes I can’t quite spot (e.g. “Do you see a syntax error on line 9?”) or to generate an example data structure I don’t readily have handy (e.g. “Generate an IngressRoute configuration for the service foo on port 8080 in the namespace bar). Additionally, I lean on AI to help me with the tasks I know I’m bad at (such as abbreviating my résumé as I frequently fail to consider that more information isn’t always better), and tasks that I’m new to (such as learning the equivalent pattern to subclassing in Golang).