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Job bots expose MiniMax, Qwen limits
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Job bots expose MiniMax, Qwen limits

A Reddit user says MiniMax and Qwen 3.5 can help directly with job-application tasks, but fall apart when turned into a bot that has to actually carry them out across email and LinkedIn. The thread highlights a familiar agentic-AI gap: strong text generation, shaky end-to-end execution.

// ANALYSIS

This is less a model problem than an orchestration problem. LLMs can reason about the task, but reliable job-application automation needs deterministic browser control, state handling, retries, and human approval at the final send step.

  • Email and LinkedIn are brittle targets: dynamic UIs, anti-bot defenses, and frequent layout changes make fully autonomous flows fragile
  • The programming language matters less than the execution layer; Playwright/Selenium-style control and structured tool calls matter more than Flutter vs Python vs C++
  • Models often look much better when used interactively than when asked to self-generate the automation code they’ll later depend on
  • For anything involving accounts, approvals, or platform ToS risk, a human-in-the-loop workflow is safer and usually more dependable
  • The post is a useful reality check for agent builders: “can chat about the task” is still far from “can consistently do the task”
// TAGS
qwen-3.5minimaxllmagentautomationcomputer-use

DISCOVERED

22d ago

2026-03-20

PUBLISHED

23d ago

2026-03-20

RELEVANCE

7/ 10

AUTHOR

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