Show HN: Generate a Cover Letter by Pasting the Job Post and Your Resume

I love the idea! I spend weeks making countless minor tweaks to my resume until I finally land a new job, and I hate employers who ask for, or even require, a cover letter. I&#x27;m a fairly sincere person and I hate writing cover letters because it feels like kissing ass for a corporation I really don&#x27;t give a crap about. Letting AI do that job for me sounds like a great idea. Besides, it won&#x27;t be long before the majority of job applicants start using AI to generate personalized cover letters, effectively making cover letters worthless.<p>On the other hand, I dread knowing that recruiters are also using these AI generators to write introductory messages. It used to be easy to filter out the worthless recruiters, the majority of them it&#x27;s super obvious they didn&#x27;t read your resume or profile. &quot;I&#x27;m super impressed by your experience!&quot; Uh huh. But now, AI can generate an introductory message which takes every detail of my skills and experience into account. So now, if a recruiter contacts me and they reference one or two details in my resume, I have to wonder if it was an actually competent recruiter or just an AI.

I basically launched a similar service just recently [1]. Guess, the idea is pretty obvious, especially hearing about all the layoffs in the past months combined with OpenAI&#x27;s impressive progress.<p>For feedback: I tried your generator, and it gave me a cover letter (impressively fast!) as promised. The letter&#x27;s signature was a link and read &quot;Candidate Name&quot;, which I clicked (of course) and went straight to a 404. The cover letter was gone. So, maybe some way to save a link to the letter, e.g. a unique URL, that you can navigate back to? You could store the letter content for a few hours or days for that, or even just encode the full content into a query string. Alternatively, a big, fat &quot;Copy to clipboard&quot; button could also help.<p>You mentioned GPT-3 - is it actually 3 or 3.5-turbo?<p>Looking forward to what a multimodal GPT-4 can do for us now. AI-generated profile photos, application video, automatically calling the recruiters on the phone, etc. The ideas to shake up recruiters&#x27; lives seem endless now ;)<p>You are welcome to test my generator and borrow some ideas if you find it interesting. It&#x27;s behind a free signup, as I was slightly afraid of piling up OpenAI API cost.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.resufit.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.resufit.com</a>

For fear of sounding like the “do people still watch TV. I haven’t watch TV in 10 years guy”, do people still write cover letters and do any companies actually read them?