Currently doing the redesign of Private Captcha website and I needed to get some contractors onboard. Upwork is the usual suspect for hiring, but the amount of noise is the problem. My usual filter on Upwork is just to check who actually reads the assignment, but I had something better in mind this time.

I already (almost) knew what will happen, but still it was quite fun to watch.

Many freelancers use LLMs nowadays to apply on Upwork

I stole this idea from glama.ai who prompt-injected the CONTRIBUTING.md file of awesome-mcp-servers repository.