Engineer flags LLM recruiting email as fake personalization, wrong role
What happened
On October 9 a Hacker News front-page post had an infrastructure engineer complaining about a recent recruiting email. The opening paragraph was LLM-generated, recapping his work at Railway, City Storage Systems and AWS Glacier and calling him a perfect match for the job. The CI/CD role description that followed had almost nothing to do with him. The personalization, he wrote, had no link to the actual position, and the obvious LLM tone made the email feel more fake than a standard template. Running the LLM again or having a human proofread would have caught it, he said.
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- Hacker News front pageThe Deeply Impersonal Personalized Recruiter Mail
一位基础设施工程师吐槽近期收到的招聘邮件：首段由 LLM 生成，复述其在 Railway、City Storage Systems 和 AWS Glacier 的经历并称其“完美匹配”，随后附上的却是几乎无关的 CI/CD 岗位描述。作者指出，这类邮件既与职位毫无关联，又充满明显的 LLM 腔调，比传统模板邮件更显虚假，而只需再跑一遍 LLM 或人工校对就能避免。
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