Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel

This Hacker News post is not a product release or technical tutorial, but an ethical reminder aimed at AI-style cold emails and automated outreach. The poster had previously commented in HN's "Who wants to be hired?" job thread, hoping to find a job opportunity that could leverage his experience in hospitality, food tech, and automation. A few hours later, he received an email that opened by mentioning it had seen his comment in the job thread, but whose content quickly turned into self-promotion by the sender: claiming the ability to build production-ready TypeScript and Python systems, integrate LLMs into real-world workflows, and mentioning trendy AI keywords like RAG and agent orchestration. For the poster, the problem was not just the spam itself, but that it disguised itself as a message that might be related to his job search, exploiting the expectations of someone who is actively looking for work. He says he is a forced migrant with a family, rent, and heavy debt, and has been unemployed for six months; in such a state, every job-related email feels like a glimmer of hope, but opening it to find it is just a sales pitch causes a small blow, and these blows accumulate. The post ends with a sarcastic tone, suggesting that perhaps a skill called "empathy" should be added to Claude Code, or that some MCP server should remind senders to consider others' circumstances. The comment section broadened the discussion to how AI makes semi-personalized cold emails easier to mass-produce, including security consultants, recruiters, agency services, and all kinds of sales outreach. The point is not to ban all proactive contact, but to remind developers and founders: when automation tools can scan public comments at low cost and generate messages that appear contextually relevant, it also becomes easier to treat people in vulnerable circumstances as a lead list. For Taiwanese developers, creators, and freelancers, this is a low-tech-barrier but highly realistic warning: if AI outreach only chases conversion rates and ignores the recipient's current circumstances, it will quickly become more precise and more hurtful spam.