I let an AI agent run my job search: the real numbers, including the LLM bill
2026-07-24I let an AI agent run my remote-job search. Here are the real numbers — including the LLM bill.I'm a backend developer in São Paulo looking for a remote role paid in USD. The real grind of that search isn't interviewing — it's the pipeline: trawling job boards, judging fit, filling the same Greenhouse/Lever/Workable forms again and again, then watching the inbox so a recruiter reply doesn't rot for two days.
- ▪2026-07-24I let an AI agent run my remote-job search.
- ▪Here are the real numbers — including the LLM bill.I'm a backend developer in São Paulo looking for a remote role paid in USD.
- ▪The real grind of that search isn't interviewing — it's the pipeline: trawling job boards, judging fit, filling the same Greenhouse/Lever/Workable forms again and again, then watching the inbox so a recruiter reply doesn't rot for two days.
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2026-07-24I let an AI agent run my remote-job search. Here are the real numbers — including the LLM bill.I'm a backend developer in São Paulo looking for a remote role paid in USD. The real grind of that search isn't interviewing — it's the pipeline: trawling job boards, judging fit, filling the same Greenhouse/Lever/Workable forms again and again, then watching the inbox so a recruiter reply doesn't rot for two days. So I built an agent that runs the entire cycle autonomously, and pointed it at my own search. This is the data from the first four days — including the part that almost killed the project: the LLM bill.
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