[rachofsunshine]

Both sides of the process have real skin in the game, but the difference is that employers (and not employees) typically control the structure of the hiring process. So insofar as the hiring process becomes degenerate, that's something companies can do something about, but not something candidates can do much about (except in this case fail to follow their own obvious incentives).

I'm not exactly cheering for LLM-driven spam here, but the way applications work has incentivized candidates to be maximally spammy for a very long time.