Show HN: Cover letter generator with Ollama/local LLMs (Open source)

An open-source tool just promised to crank out “unique” cover letter PDFs with local AI (think large language models running on your own machine via Ollama) in eight languages — but the real action is the comments. The top vibe? Skeptical, spicy, and a little tragic. One user deadpanned that this will help you “stand out” — just not in the way you want, since companies are already checking for AI-written applications. Another took it full dystopia: send your AI resume to the AI rejection system, because every recruiter is now drowning in a tsunami of bot-written letters.

The mood got even harsher: “The whole repo is AI slop, get bent,” snapped one critic, while another sighed, “Sad for all involved.” Practical voices chimed in with a PSA: if a human might actually read your letter, write it yourself — after 30 AI cover letters in a row, they all look the same. So while the project touts privacy, self-hosting on GitHub, and speed — and yes, multilingual flex — the community is seeing a bot‑vs‑bot arms race where uniqueness dies and everyone loses.

Open source? Cool. Local-first? Nice. But the crowd’s verdict reads like a meme: automation solved cover letters, and accidentally broke them. Stars incoming; recruiter patience, not so much.