
I Got Tired of Filling Out the Same Form 50 Times, So I Built an AI to Do It
Every time I applied for a job, I faced the same ritual. Open the application form. Type my full name. Type my email. Paste my LinkedIn URL. Type my phone number. Select my country from a dropdown. Answer "Are you authorized to work in the US?" for the fifteenth time that week. The entire process takes about ten minutes per application, and roughly eight of those minutes are spent on fields I have answered hundreds of times before. The two minutes that actually matter, the cover letter, the portfolio link, the thoughtful answers to specific questions, get squeezed into whatever mental energy I have left. I am a GenAI engineer. I spend my days building systems that make computers do repetitive cognitive work. The irony of manually typing my zip code into yet another Greenhouse form at midnight was not lost on me. So I built ApplyAI: a Chrome extension that reads a job application form, sends the fields to an AI agent, gets back a fill plan, and applies it to the page in under ten second
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