Professor gets 12 cold emails in a day, 8 fully AI-generated, stops reading them
paulnovosad · x · 2026-11-14
Economist paulnovosad received 12 unsolicited emails from students in one day, 8 of them fully AI-generated. He says cold emails used to signal confidence and initiative, but AI has destroyed that signal—he can no longer read them. His take: capable young people will need new ways to stand out, likely by building something original, which is harder but therefore still carries signal.
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