AI drafts fast and defaults to generic. For anyone whose job is being heard, that's a real risk. Here's how to use it for speed without your writing converging on everyone else's.
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Andrej Karpathy built a complete product in about two hours using an AI agent. Simon Willison shipped a playable game through 321 agent commits — and both point to the same shift in what separates a good result from a mediocre one.
4 min readThree product changes this year quietly removed the editing pass between AI output and the finished file. Here's what has to move into the prompt now that nothing catches a gap afterward.
4 min readAn iPhone update, a developer-productivity report, a persuasion study, and an AI-detection tool landed within six weeks of each other this summer. None of them were about prompting technique — and that's the point worth noticing.
4 min readGPT-6 and Claude both started choosing their own output format this week — dashboards, calculators, animations — instead of defaulting to prose. The model deciding what you see is a new layer to check before you trust it.
4 min readFour separate stories this year — a CEO's warning, a viral study, a blunt writing rule, a $50,000 gap in financial advice — all point at the same three seams. Here's the throughline, and the move that closes each one.
4 min readSimon Willison endorsed a rule blunt enough to actually follow: write it yourself, then use AI only to flag problems, never to supply the fix. Two studies published the same week explain why the line matters more than it sounds.
4 min readPatin turns these into five-minute drills that score what you write and tell you why. It's in closed beta — join the waitlist and we'll email you when your cohort opens.
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