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>>kaeruc+(OP)
Goodhart's law: if you rely on a social signal to tell you what's good, you'll break that signal.

Very soon, the domain of bullshit will extend to actual text. We'll be able to buy HN comments by the thousand -- expertly wordsmithed, lucid AI comments -- and you can get them to say "this GitHub repo is the best", or "this startup is the real deal". Won't that be fun?

>>perihe+ca
I hope it breaks the current system of requiring references in job search as well

>>charli+uk
This system is already essentially broken. Either you worked at a large business that only gives out dates of employment and job title by policy or you are in complete control of who the hiring company talks to.

The first time you don’t get a job because of a reference you gave you learn a lesson. If it ever happens again, it’s on you.

>>paulco+Sk
What's really an alternative. At least where I live, a multi-year gap in your CV is going to set off more red flags than an honest "It didn't work out between us".

>>asmor+5o
Don’t give them your boss’s name. Give them a coworker’s name. Give them a friend’s name and have them lie for you.

If a company is proactively contacting people you don’t give them contact information for, that’s not requiring references — which is the process I (and the comment I replied to) was talking about. If a company knows where you’ve worked, they can contact them if they want.