Right! I remember reading blogs a month or so ago about how to add some hidden prompt engineering into your cover letters using AI to help get passed the BS AI filters. They had a ton of stats, something like an order of magnitude better response rate.

>Like, eagerness to engage on this stuff is an application anti-pattern.

100%. It's just throwing apps at the wall and seeing what sticks. It's terrible for "placement" if that makes sense.

I'll keep doing it, and working where I can as long as I can until I figure out what to do myself, or someone finds me. It's worked for me once before.