Hello sailors,

I have been job hunting for a while and I have felt a great disadvantage in my job search due to my lack of access to high-quality LLMs. Writing cover letters is honestly so bullshit. GPT-3 is honestly quite bad nowadays, but as a true pirate at heart I couldn’t quite get myself to cough up the coin for OpenAI’s GPT4 out of principle. I hate them for putting their cutting edge technology behind a paywall, making it inaccessible for their own gain. I feel like this is not what the internet was supposed to be. So today, call me the great emancipator cuz i’m teaching u how to get that shi for free baby

Requirements: Docker

It’s all gonna be based off of this github repo: gpt4free

Installing through docker (there’s also a way to install with Python PIP if that’s more convenient for you. The docker worked for me though)

  1. docker pull hlohaus789/g4f

  2. docker run -p 8080:8080 -p 1337:1337 -p 7900:7900 --shm-size="2g" -v ${PWD}/hardir:/app/hardir hlohaus789/g4f:latest

  3. Open up the webui in your browser at localhost:8080

  4. In the “Provider” dropdown in the bottom look for “Liaobots”

  5. Choose “gpt-4-plus” under the “Models” dropdown

??? Profit

The cool thing about gpt4free is that there’s a lot of providers and a lot of models to choose from! So if gpt-4-plus from Liaobot doesn’t work for you you can switch to something else easily. Do note that some models require you to provide an authentication token or be logged in. Most of them work right out of the box tho.

*this post was not made with any use of an llm I promise ;)

^^list of gpt4 providers

  • Daxtron2@startrek.websiteEnglish
    93·
    9 months ago

    I never apply to jobs that require a cover letter. Most of them have shitty work environments anyways

      • Daxtron2@startrek.websiteEnglish
        7·
        9 months ago

        My job has no cover letter, 2 interviews and it’s probably the best dev job I’ve had. All about finding a company that values your time as a person and not just as an employee. If they make you jump through bs to get hired, they’re gonna make you jump through BS to work. I could make 20k more at one of those companies but id hate my work and have no balance.

    • photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Congrats but some of us don’t have that luxury. Using an LLM to generate a cover letter is fine, as long as you don’t add any PII and revise it yourself so it isn’t obvious a chatbot wrote it.

      • Daxtron2@startrek.websiteEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        Of course you do? There are jobs that won’t put you through bullshit just to work there. I never said it wasn’t fine, but making you jump through hoops is a sign of a bad workplace.

        • photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Cover letters are an established standard in my region, it may be different in yours. I can count on one hand the number of employers I’ve come across who explicitly decline a cover letter.