Sterling
@sterlingsmith.fyi
i help recruiters find the best candidate, not the best resume · building @rightmatchai · foldable convert · film photographer · austin ↔ nwa
My AI assistant handles inbox triage, meeting prep, research, and first drafts. It's called Muse. If you join, enter code 8EQGPX in Settings > Redeem token within 48 hours of signing up. We both earn credits. #AI
September 28, 2026 at 4:56 AM
My AI assistant handles inbox triage, meeting prep, research, and first drafts. It's called Muse. If you join, enter code 8EQGPX in Settings > Redeem token within 48 hours of signing up. We both earn credits. #AI
Job openings are up 13%. Hires are up 2%.
400 applicants. 40 resumes read. 6 interviewed. 1 hired.
Gave a talk this week at DisruptHR: "Everyone Is Cheating Now." The recruiters laughed. Then they stopped.
https://sterlingsmith.fyi/cheating
400 applicants. 40 resumes read. 6 interviewed. 1 hired.
Gave a talk this week at DisruptHR: "Everyone Is Cheating Now." The recruiters laughed. Then they stopped.
https://sterlingsmith.fyi/cheating
September 25, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Job openings are up 13%. Hires are up 2%.
400 applicants. 40 resumes read. 6 interviewed. 1 hired.
Gave a talk this week at DisruptHR: "Everyone Is Cheating Now." The recruiters laughed. Then they stopped.
https://sterlingsmith.fyi/cheating
400 applicants. 40 resumes read. 6 interviewed. 1 hired.
Gave a talk this week at DisruptHR: "Everyone Is Cheating Now." The recruiters laughed. Then they stopped.
https://sterlingsmith.fyi/cheating
Driving Austin → Bentonville tonight to talk hiring tech at Disrupt HR NWA tomorrow. If you're there, come say hi.
September 24, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Driving Austin → Bentonville tonight to talk hiring tech at Disrupt HR NWA tomorrow. If you're there, come say hi.
Happy Hump Day, Austin! 🧑🏾💻☕️
September 23, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Happy Hump Day, Austin! 🧑🏾💻☕️
Greenhouse's 2026 report: 63% of job seekers have sat through an AI interview. Only 1 in 5 believe employers use that AI responsibly. The tool got adopted faster than the trust did. Would you take an AI interview if nobody told you what it measured?
September 22, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Greenhouse's 2026 report: 63% of job seekers have sat through an AI interview. Only 1 in 5 believe employers use that AI responsibly. The tool got adopted faster than the trust did. Would you take an AI interview if nobody told you what it measured?
John Coltrane's album "A Love Supreme" is truly a wonderful experience.
September 21, 2026 at 5:22 PM
John Coltrane's album "A Love Supreme" is truly a wonderful experience.
One of the ATS platforms we integrate with just started charging for API calls that used to be free. No announcement, we just noticed the dashboard looked different. Every integration you didn't build is a lease, not a purchase. Anyone else renegotiating a vendor this month?
September 21, 2026 at 1:05 PM
One of the ATS platforms we integrate with just started charging for API calls that used to be free. No announcement, we just noticed the dashboard looked different. Every integration you didn't build is a lease, not a purchase. Anyone else renegotiating a vendor this month?
Saturday mornings be like 🌮 🚲 ☕ 🤘🏾
#AustinTexas
#AustinTexas
September 19, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Saturday mornings be like 🌮 🚲 ☕ 🤘🏾
#AustinTexas
#AustinTexas
Sometimes the best art happens under a deadline.
September 17, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Sometimes the best art happens under a deadline.
Everyone's excited about AI agents doing recruiter work.
Almost nobody's excited about explaining what the agent decided when a regulator asks.
That gap, not the agent itself, is the actual product problem in hiring right now.
Almost nobody's excited about explaining what the agent decided when a regulator asks.
That gap, not the agent itself, is the actual product problem in hiring right now.
September 16, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Everyone's excited about AI agents doing recruiter work.
Almost nobody's excited about explaining what the agent decided when a regulator asks.
That gap, not the agent itself, is the actual product problem in hiring right now.
Almost nobody's excited about explaining what the agent decided when a regulator asks.
That gap, not the agent itself, is the actual product problem in hiring right now.
A federal judge just let the Workday AI hiring bias case keep moving.
The AI doesn't decide who gets hired. It decides who a recruiter ever sees.
If it screens you out before a human reads your name, nobody upstream knows to ask why.
The AI doesn't decide who gets hired. It decides who a recruiter ever sees.
If it screens you out before a human reads your name, nobody upstream knows to ask why.
September 15, 2026 at 1:04 PM
A federal judge just let the Workday AI hiring bias case keep moving.
The AI doesn't decide who gets hired. It decides who a recruiter ever sees.
If it screens you out before a human reads your name, nobody upstream knows to ask why.
The AI doesn't decide who gets hired. It decides who a recruiter ever sees.
If it screens you out before a human reads your name, nobody upstream knows to ask why.
Be kind to yourself today.
September 10, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Be kind to yourself today.
First Light Bookstore and Coffee Shop is top notch. 🤌🏾
August 17, 2026 at 2:32 PM
First Light Bookstore and Coffee Shop is top notch. 🤌🏾
Name a career AI can’t replace.
August 17, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Name a career AI can’t replace.
The job doesn't get taken away. It just never gets posted.
Dario Amodei says half of entry-level white-collar jobs could vanish in 1 to 5 years. I wrote about what preparing actually looks like: sterlingsmith.fyi/impact
Dario Amodei says half of entry-level white-collar jobs could vanish in 1 to 5 years. I wrote about what preparing actually looks like: sterlingsmith.fyi/impact
August 11, 2026 at 1:32 PM
The job doesn't get taken away. It just never gets posted.
Dario Amodei says half of entry-level white-collar jobs could vanish in 1 to 5 years. I wrote about what preparing actually looks like: sterlingsmith.fyi/impact
Dario Amodei says half of entry-level white-collar jobs could vanish in 1 to 5 years. I wrote about what preparing actually looks like: sterlingsmith.fyi/impact
Austin –> Martha’s Vineyard 🕶️
Who’s coming?!
Who’s coming?!
August 2, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Austin –> Martha’s Vineyard 🕶️
Who’s coming?!
Who’s coming?!
The age of technical cofounders is gone. RIP.
August 1, 2026 at 2:43 AM
The age of technical cofounders is gone. RIP.
Anyone in Austin down to photowalk tomorrow morning? 🤘🏾📸
August 1, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Anyone in Austin down to photowalk tomorrow morning? 🤘🏾📸
claude cowork just expanded to mobile and web. anthropic, google, openai all shipped model updates in 3 weeks.
the frontier is priced and tiered now, shipping monthly.
which release are you actually running in production?
the frontier is priced and tiered now, shipping monthly.
which release are you actually running in production?
July 31, 2026 at 1:01 PM
claude cowork just expanded to mobile and web. anthropic, google, openai all shipped model updates in 3 weeks.
the frontier is priced and tiered now, shipping monthly.
which release are you actually running in production?
the frontier is priced and tiered now, shipping monthly.
which release are you actually running in production?
38.5% of candidates flagged for AI-assisted interview cheating recently, up from 9% three months ago.
companies are pulling interviews back in person to dodge it. that's a retreat, not a fix.
trust scores solve what a room is a workaround for.
companies are pulling interviews back in person to dodge it. that's a retreat, not a fix.
trust scores solve what a room is a workaround for.
July 29, 2026 at 1:00 PM
38.5% of candidates flagged for AI-assisted interview cheating recently, up from 9% three months ago.
companies are pulling interviews back in person to dodge it. that's a retreat, not a fix.
trust scores solve what a room is a workaround for.
companies are pulling interviews back in person to dodge it. that's a retreat, not a fix.
trust scores solve what a room is a workaround for.
T-Mobile's outage today is a good reminder: redundancy is boring until the day it saves you.
every founder should know their own T-Mobile moment before it happens to them. 📡
#FounderLessons
every founder should know their own T-Mobile moment before it happens to them. 📡
#FounderLessons
July 28, 2026 at 5:09 PM
T-Mobile's outage today is a good reminder: redundancy is boring until the day it saves you.
every founder should know their own T-Mobile moment before it happens to them. 📡
#FounderLessons
every founder should know their own T-Mobile moment before it happens to them. 📡
#FounderLessons
Claude Code is the new Netflix.
July 23, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Claude Code is the new Netflix.
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you posted the job. 400 applied, 394 never got a real shot. the résumé that used to sort them is broken too. 500,000+ candidates evaluated on rightmatch, by a real interview, every time. one interview. seen forever. rightmatch.app
July 20, 2026 at 1:30 PM
you posted the job. 400 applied, 394 never got a real shot. the résumé that used to sort them is broken too. 500,000+ candidates evaluated on rightmatch, by a real interview, every time. one interview. seen forever. rightmatch.app
Automattic and Expensify don't require résumés anymore. ChatGPT made every résumé read the same. We bet on the interview over the résumé a year early. If résumés are dying, what replaces them at your company?
July 20, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Automattic and Expensify don't require résumés anymore. ChatGPT made every résumé read the same. We bet on the interview over the résumé a year early. If résumés are dying, what replaces them at your company?