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[–] bluespin 166 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 97 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

They cant even bother to read the input! If they read what they were applying for, the would know to remove the extra output

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

The better way to automate menial tasks is not to do them in the first place.