It’s bot versus bot on the hiring front lines, as job hunters turn to new tools to counter the AI that’s screening their applications.

Microsoft has announced that the Web Application Firewall (WAF) bot protection feature has reached general availability on Azure on Application Gateway starting this week.

For the first few minutes, I was mesmerized. Then, I started to panic. In one application, the bot indicated that I speak conversational-level Spanish, which I definitely do not.

This AI Bot Fills Out Job Applications for You While You Sleep AI-powered services like LazyApply zip through the grunt work of job applications, helping one programmer apply for 5,000 jobs.