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How to Stop LLMs from Hallucinating on Resume Data

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A developer building an AI resume scorer found GPT-4o gave inconsistent scores and fabricated experience like Kubernetes clusters. They solved it by computing keyword and skill matches in Python, then feeding those as hints. Server-side validation also rejects any edits to nonexistent roles or bullets.

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A practical reminder that prompt engineering alone can't prevent LLM hallucinations—you need deterministic checks and server-side enforcement.
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My LLM Kept Making Stuff Up on Resumes. Here’s How I Shut It Down. →
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