A million words of failed drafts taught me that improving my AI setup sometimes means giving it fewer rules to follow
AI can turn work into play—and distract me from the work I need to do. Here’s how I’m learning to bring something back from those detours.
A new lab says the sameness of AI prose is a training problem. It made the writing less predictable—but not necessarily any better.
The app worked. Nobody, including me, had checked whether it was safe.
These four questions helped me decide which ones to keep, redesign, revisit, or retire
I had a quarter of OKRs and no clue whether I was hitting them. Enter Codex.
Turning a list of my writing foibles into a skill that stops me from getting away with them
Four pieces of unsolicited advice from an AI-pilled millennial
My AI project manager reads my OKRs, calendar, Notion, and Slack so I can stay on top of my work
The more reliable AI gets, the less we check its work. Research explains why, and what to do about it.
It takes rigor, judgment, and willingness to be told your work isn't good enough.
New research shows AI doesn't reduce work—it makes you want to do more of it
The skills I transferred to my writing agent from playing Settlers of Catan
‘Does this mean I'm good at my job?’
What the del Toro film adaptation has to say about creation and responsibility
How AI tools provided the support I needed to end years of work turmoil
How to build a personalized writing partner that knows your patterns and enforces your standards
Forget maker versus manager—we’re all model managers now
Voice-first AI removed the invisible friction between my brain and the page
To build Every's AI editor, I had to make our taste legible—starting with my own
Katie Parrott
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