AI tool scours the web for job openings, preps your resume and cover letter
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A dev built a free bot that hunts job listings overnight and texts you the best matches on Telegram. It'll even draft your resume and cover letter, though you still have to hit send yourself.
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Job hunting is miserable, repetitive work, and Tarun Gupta decided to automate the worst part of it. His tool, Autopilot-Jobhunt, crawls the web while you sleep, matches postings against your resume, and pings you on Telegram with a ranked list of openings that actually fit what you're looking for. It'll skip the roles you've flagged as dealbreakers, too.
What sets A-J apart from just another scraper script is the follow-through. Once it finds a promising listing, it can generate a tailored resume and cover letter for that specific job. Gupta drew a line at full automation, though — the bot won't submit anything on your behalf. You review, you send, you stay in control of the final click.
The irony here is that AI-written applications might work better than you'd expect. Research reported last year found that some AI hiring screeners actually favored resumes generated by the same model doing the screening, which says something uncomfortable about how much the human touch is worth in modern recruiting.
Cost-wise, Gupta built A-J to run on free infrastructure, since nobody hunting for work wants to burn cash on API calls. TinyFish's web agent handles the crawling, and OpenRouter cycles through free models — starting with Llama, then falling back to Nvidia's Nemotron, Google's Gemma 4, and Alibaba's Qwen3 if quotas get tapped out. Anyone with spare Anthropic tokens can swap in Claude Code instead, which also keeps resume data away from OpenRouter for the privacy-conscious.
Out of the box, A-J is tuned for software developers, and the timing tracks. Hiring Lab data released this week shows developer job postings are up 15 percent since Claude Code launched in February 2025, while postings across all other fields dropped seven percent in that same stretch. Still, the tool isn't locked to tech — the default list of target companies can be edited freely, so anyone willing to tinker with the config could point it at a different industry entirely.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
Watching AI screeners favor AI-written resumes is the kind of feedback loop that should worry hiring managers more than job seekers — if the bots are just talking to each other, the whole interview process becomes theater. I'd rather see companies fix their broken screening tools than shame candidates for using the same tricks the system already rewards.
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