It is pure slop.

Random assortment of keyword-related sentences, tied together with superficially correct language.

No human would write that thank you notes are "contentious" and "require the applicant to do free work", while linking to an X post of some dude saying "pro tip: write thank you notes"

Nope, there are a lot of AI tells in the article.

AI criticizing AI, poetic, if you ask me.

I definitely agree about putting in some effort if it's for something important to you, but that's probably not how people doing stuff like that think.

They're all about optimizing their output, with a spammer's mindset. Who cares about effort, you can have a robot apply for a million things at once and just wait for whatever sticks. They believe they've cracked the system. And who knows, maybe most recruiters can't tell (yet).

Yet another case of slop pollution making every aspect of life worse.

I've never gotten a job for which I sent a thank you letter. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but I think it may come across as desperate.

It's probably not the same word for word, but with very similar structures. And LLMs tend to structure the text in very similar ways that don't feel quite right.

You are right, but you are also wrong. If they’re given the same seed, they certainly will. They are 100% deterministic. But in reality, the seed is randomly generated, so yeah, it won’t be exactly the same every time.