You can’t fake caring about the work. It shows in the details nobody asked you to fix.

Care is visible in the places nobody specified. Whether you fixed the alignment nobody mentioned, tidied the file, or got the last two seconds right, those details add up to an impression people feel without being able to point at it. Pretending is detectable because fakes stop exactly where the requirements stop. The unasked-for part is the signature.

Pick one detail of your current project that nobody would ever check and get it right anyway. Notice how that changes the way you feel about the whole thing.