My brother stutters. He is a brilliant backend engineer, the kind who finds the bug everyone else walked past. He failed three video interview screenings where the AI analyzed his speech patterns, because disfluencies get scored as low confidence or poor communication. He passed every technical round he ever reached with an actual human. Think about what that means. A disability that has zero bearing on writing code became a filter, applied before any person evaluated his work. The vendors say their models don't penalize speech differences. The vendors also won't show anyone the model. When the accommodation process requires you to disclose a disability to a machine just to get a fair score, the machine is the barrier. Ban it.
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