built a tiny script to auto-fill the boilerplate parts of my cover letter and finally stopped dreading writing them

Cover letters used to eat an entire evening because I'd rewrite the same three sentences about 'passion for the industry' every single time. Put together a short script that pulls the company name and role into a template I already trust, leaves the actual specific paragraph blank for me to fill by hand. Applications that used to take forty minutes now take twelve, and the personal part reads better because I'm not burned out by the boilerplate first.