Tell HN: Stop emailing HN users with deceptive AI spam

Lately, I've been getting many emails that appear to be from a fellow human HN user who saw something you said on HN, and was inspired to reach out about joining their company. There's usually a faint whiff of AI, though they usually pick a personal detail of yours to mention (to make it not look like pre-AI spam), and sometimes are even sent from the email address of someone listed as a founder on a startup's web site. There's no indication that this is automated, by AI or otherwise. If you respond, you find it's either: (1) AI-powered spamming, to generate hiring leads for them to look at, for the first time, and the initial message suggesting a thoughtful connection was deceptive (making it no better than the worst LinkedIn keyword spammer's outreaches that everyone hates, just more dec