[PragmaticPulp]

> This just devalues cover letters.

Low-effort cover letters have been around forever.

As far as I'm seeing, this is just another tool to provide boilerplate cover letters where people lack communication ability to write their own.

As a hiring manager, the majority of cover letters I already receive are basically worthless. You can tell when someone is writing a cover letter because they think they have to, or when someone is writing a cover letter because they've actually thought about how to communicate something to the hiring manager.

Most of the boilerplate cover letters communicate basically nothing useful, and I end up ignoring them after the first read through.

When people make an effort, though, I make sure to carry the cover letter through the interview process so we can all collect the additional context as we interview the candidate.