Tell HN: Don't mass spam employers with LLM generated emails
These things all look the same and your message is just going to get marked spam.
For example, it's painfully obvious that our staff eng role's "combination of distributed execution, workload optimization, and cost-aware infrastructure" is not, in fact, "unusually close" to whatever line on your resume Claude decided is tangentially relevant.
Just write a normal email by hand and send it. If you it looks like you spent 5 minutes looking up what we do and are actually excited I'll at least look at your resume; if you spent 0 minutes thinking about the job posting I'm going to spend 0 minutes on this too.
Right now, any job opening is like fighting for a seat on the last helicopter out of Saigon. Whenever I do get an interview - I'm one of over a dozen applicants interviewing for the same position. Everyone is desperate, hiring managers have extreme power, and the bar is constantly being raised on how much you need to be willing to do be considered.
The irony is everyone wants to see a portfolio of AI work, but if you use AI for any part of the hiring process it's a demerit against you.
It will be an uncommon choice not to have LLMs write for you, but it won't be a merely idiosyncratic one. It will be what all the people who care about thinking well do. Not using LLMs to write for you won't be like not using Google Maps in a new city. It will be like choosing to run and lift weights, even though we now have machines that can transport us and lift weights for us. In fact, since it will be what all the smartest people do, it will probably be prestigious to write for oneself. Which in turn means more people will claim to do it than will actually do it.
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/2070184265942548978
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/2058844147092488401
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/2058855820121498037
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/2058871512451412457
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/2058863028523659390
In fact, since it will be what all the smartest [mathematicians] do, it will probably be prestigious to [math without AI]. Which in turn means more people will claim to do it than will actually do it.
Or that LLMs for writing need work and funding too..