In 2026 an obviously Claude-written cover letter makes recruiters doubt your whole CV
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-11-12
Economist Daniel Gross: if you won't put in the effort to write your own menu — the one thing I can see — I'll start questioning whether you keep your kitchen clean. It's a signal of types.
Afinetheorem extends this to hiring across eras: in 2016, not fixing typos in your CV cast doubt on everything else you claimed; in 2026, a cover letter obviously straight out of Claude does the same. As AI drives writing cost to zero, the willingness to put in effort becomes the new credibility signal.
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