[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":780},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-43891245":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":29,"sentiment":30,"stance_mix":31,"scored_comments":36,"aspects":37,"strip":49,"post_text":51,"what":52,"said":93,"maker_in_thread":204,"shape":217,"grid":222,"attempts":743,"same_week":744,"maker_shows":34,"maker_hidden":772,"reader_version":773,"card":774},"43891245","AI Native Resume","My AI Native Resume","title","Show HN: My AI Native Resume","https:\u002F\u002Fai.jakegaylor.com\u002F","ai.jakegaylor.com","jhgaylor",1746409449,2025,301,194,181,3837,5,"legend","productivity","resume and job search","api",[24,25,26,27,28],"mcp server","ai resume","llms.txt","job search","candidate profile","debated",-0.132,{"positive":32,"neutral":33,"mixed":34,"critical":35},20,23,1,32,76,{"idea":38,"pricing":40,"performance":42,"privacy":43,"design":45,"docs":47,"execution":48},{"positive":39,"critical":33},15,{"positive":41,"critical":41},0,{"positive":41,"critical":34},{"positive":41,"critical":44},3,{"positive":41,"critical":46},2,{"positive":44,"critical":46},{"positive":41,"critical":34},[50,41,34,41,41,44,41,41,46,34,34,34,18,34,41,18,46,18,34,34,34,34,44,41,34,34,18,50,18,18,50,46,18,44,34,34,41,41,41,44],4,"I've been deeply involved in working with AI agents and large language models (LLMs) for a while now. 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I haven't dialed…",{"value":64,"source":56,"evidence":65},"Reduce repeated explaining of skills during job search",[66],{"id":59},[68,74,80,86],{"value":69,"source":56,"evidence":70},"Node.js",[71],{"id":72,"by":11,"text":73},"43891946","Hey Thomas - I hadn't seen your new server yet. I did migrate over to json resume as a part of building all this out. It works really well with LLMs. Iterating on it was a breeze…",{"value":75,"source":56,"evidence":76},"TypeScript",[77],{"id":78,"by":11,"text":79},"43896859","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…",{"value":81,"source":56,"evidence":82},"Express",[83],{"id":84,"by":11,"text":85},"43892925","Here is a repo that should make it pretty straightforward to get started if you are familiar with express. It is the code behind my mcp server but ready to tweak for you.…",{"value":87,"source":56,"evidence":88},"MCP (Model Context Protocol)",[89],{"id":59},"open_source","launched","solo",{"praise":94,"objections":118,"requests":149,"questions":168,"alternatives":184},[95,107],{"value":96,"source":97,"evidence":98},"Clever demo of MCP and a useful differentiator for job search","commenter",[99,103],{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},"43895923","jerf","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…",{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"43891525","saretup","Every new format or protocol gets used to display someone’s resume at least once (http:\u002F\u002Fwww.rleonardi.com\u002Finteractive-resume\u002F). Congrats on getting there for MCP resume before…",{"value":108,"source":97,"evidence":109},"Open source and reusable as a template",[110,114],{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},"43891604","nico","That was a great read It would be nice if the idea took off Is there an already built AI tool that can take a regular resume and help someone easily generate and host their own…",{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},"43892813","hvardhan878","Damn this is really cool. Would definitely love to try.",[119,130,141],{"value":120,"source":97,"evidence":121},"Recruiters and hiring tools are unlikely to consume MCP endpoints yet",[122,126],{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},"43896443","pdabbadabba","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…",{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"43891938","Svoka","Honestly, what the point of 'endpoints' if none of the clients consume SSE\u002FStreamable HTTP?",{"value":131,"source":97,"evidence":132},"A plain PDF or text resume to an LLM would work as well",[133,137],{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},"43892306","tasuki","Without really reading this, how is MCP resume superior to the LLM just reading your resume in a text format?",{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"43891956","arjunrko","Cool idea and all. Definitely catches attention and shows familiarity. But how is this different from uploading a normal resume to an assistant and asking it questions?",{"value":142,"source":97,"evidence":143},"Puts burden on recruiters to use AI to read resumes",[144,148],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"43891880","forrestthewoods","Cute, but no. I will absolutely do none of things. You need to make it as easy as possible for me to learn about you. If instructions are necessary it’s not easy. If you want me…",{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},[150,157],{"value":151,"source":97,"evidence":152},"Share a blog post about the job search workflow with Notion and other MCP servers",[153],{"id":154,"by":155,"text":156},"43913332","ponector",">>I paired my mcp server with others such as notion, hirebase, and gmail to build a leads database, write cover letters, and track my job search. Blog post about this will be…",{"value":158,"source":97,"evidence":159},"Connect to GitHub or coding tools to show work",[160,164],{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},"43892579","p2hari","This is cool. If we can integrate with ides (windsurf, claude etc.); can we then get a feel of what kind of prompts and issues have been tackled? How much code to ai assisted…",{"id":165,"by":166,"text":167},"43891737","notphil","Cool idea. I can see this, if extended, being useful. * A GitHub MCP exposing your code and issue contributions * A site that exposes CV-data of candidates. * An agent LLM…",[169,177],{"value":170,"source":97,"evidence":171},"Why is MCP better than putting context in the prompt",[172,176],{"id":173,"by":174,"text":175},"43891697","sprobertson","I like the concept, but I'm curious why MCP is better here (for something purely informational) over dumping a bunch of context in the prompt",{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},{"value":178,"source":97,"evidence":179},"How would an AI discover the endpoint",[180],{"id":181,"by":182,"text":183},"43891795","sho_hn","Unlike llms.txt (which I think none of the major vendors have announced to be using\u002Fsupporting, too, for that matter), there's currently no standard for AI assistants running a…",[185,193,200],{"value":186,"source":97,"evidence":187},"llms.txt files",[188,192],{"id":189,"by":190,"text":191},"43891644","furyofantares","In reality your llms.txt seems a perfectly AI-native resume but I think I get that this is more of a tech or skills demo plus resume or something https:\u002F\u002Fai.jakegaylor.com\u002Fllms.txt",{"id":181,"by":182,"text":183},{"value":194,"source":97,"evidence":195},"JSON Resume MCP server",[196],{"id":197,"by":198,"text":199},"43891899","thomasfromcdnjs","This is cool, going to steal some ideas. 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