AGREED! There's a great paper on this that showed that LLMs have basically completely eliminated the signaling benefit in putting in the effort to make a good job application. The best cover letters used to get people hired more, but slop has eliminated that. https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/209…

YIMBYLAND@YIMBYLAND4h ago

AI job application tools are the worst thing that has ever happened in tech. Everyone involved should go to hell.