Beep boop, I don't want this rule

This is legitimately funny

Counterpoint: cover letters are exactly the kind of time-sucking circle jerk that should be automated, and at least your candidate is showing that they can use technology to automate time-wasting menial tasks and prioritize their time effectively.

I'm all for using AI to ease the burden of cover letters, but a real candidate is going to check the result before sending
- Ding ding
  I don't care if you used automation to ease a menial task. That's basically half the reason TO automate things.
  I DO care if you can't even be arsed to read what the automation spit out to fact check.
That's true, but this is also ensuring that people can vet whatever they get out of an AI and make sure it isn't just hallucinated garbage
- Good point!
Honestly, cover letters are something that needs to die out for most jobs, they're entirely pointless. 99% of the time, it just seems like they want you to rehash the contents of your resume and grovel a bit for the company. Screw that.
You want someone with 5 years experience in a role, my resume shows I have ten years doing that job, make your call if it's good enough to interview me or not. I'm not writing an essay about how excited I am for the opportunity to count widgets at your company, and how it's always been a dream of mine to work inventory control for a company that changes the world by ensuring stock buybacks can regularly happen by overworking and underpaying their staff.
Biggest waste of time I see recommended for applications. I don't apply to any job that requires them.
There are worse practices, like teaching neurodivergent behavioral patterns as "signs of lying" to the HR department.

Their first problem is asking for a cover letter. I’ve applied to hundreds of jobs while looking, you think I’m going to hand write 100+ cover letters, customized for each and every job? Hell no.

Make one solid base and tweak it for different types of jobs. You could even use AI but just check the result after.
- He already said no

I love how a guy with ChatGPT in their experience used a LLM for a job app…

his experience was exclusively in using it to create cover letters

We'll see how many seconds it takes to retrain the LLMs to adjust to this.

You are literally training LLMs to lie.

LLMs are black box bullshit that can only be prompted, not recoded. The gab one that was told 3 or 4 times not to reveal its initial prompt was easily jailbroken.

What's Upwork?

Not much, what's up with you?

Funny, that's my exact reaction when I see the requirement for a cover letter. Beep boop, fuck you and your job.

Filters out unmotivated applicants, I suppose

Yay this will make it easier for exploitative employers to waste my time on meaningless bullshit cover letters 🥰🥰🥰

It just amazes me that LLMs are that easily directed to reveal themselves. It shows how far removed they are from AGI.