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date: "2026-04-20T22:38:55.000Z"
title: "2026-04-20"
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There's a huge amount of cold outreach that appears (to my eye) to be LLM-generated.
What's more interesting that these inbound messages seem completely decoupled from the human(?) who gets involved if you respond to one of these cold leads.
The outreach

> Hi Dan,
> What prompted me to reach out is we're looking for an AI Technologist / Engineer ...

I reply 20 minutes later

> Hi,
> I currently run a consultancy where I do work like this ...

They respond

> Hey Dan,
> It has been a while since we connected last ...
> If you are interested in [a full time position] ...

Has it?
As far as I can tell we "spoke" this morning?
Did you read my rely even a little?
Am I speaking to a person yet?
Maybe it's an uncharitable interpretation of what is happening here but shouldn't the human at least claim ownership of the original message even if they never wrote it or read it?
It's sent with their name on it.
To be clear we've never "connected" prior to this email.
The original email is the first contact ever.
Is this another LLM responding _without_ the first exchange?
Yikes.

Seems the only way this ends is with agent representation on both sides.