Utilized → Shipped: Frontend Bullets That Survive 6-Second Scans
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Replaced 'Utilized' (the most over-used engineering AI verb of 2026) with 'Shipped', named the specific surface owned (search + filter on the candidate dashboard), and added the only number a frontend recruiter cares about: interaction latency.
Shipped the search and filter rebuild in React on the candidate dashboard · cut p95 interaction-to-render from 480ms to 110ms.
What changed and why
- 'Utilized X to implement Y' is an AI sentence. Recruiters skim-past in under a second.
- Name the surface you owned (the search bar, the checkout step, the empty state) · surfaces are defensible, 'modern frontend technologies' is not.
- p95 interaction-to-render is the metric senior frontend engineers actually quote in interviews. INP (200ms threshold) is the 2025 Core Web Vital · recruiters know it.
- Two numbers (before + after) beat one percentage. The recruiter does the math and trusts the delta.
Recruiter perspective
“Shipped is honest, the surface is specific, and 480→110ms is a number I can verify in a 30-min screen.”
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