Katie Parrott

Staff Writer & AI Editorial Lead

Katie Parrott is a staff writer and AI editorial lead at Every. She writes Working Overtime, a column about how technology reshapes work, and builds AI-powered systems for the Every editorial team.

Dec 11, 2025

Vibe Check: GPT-5.2 Is an Incremental Upgrade

OpenAI's latest model update excels at instruction-following and extended tasks, but don't expect it to surprise you

Mar 13, 2026

Compound Engineering Camp: Every Step, From Scratch

Kieran Klaassen turned a prompt into a working app in an hour and shows you how

Jan 13, 2026

Vibe Check: Claude Cowork Is Claude Code for the Rest of Us

The asynchronous, agentic workflow developers love is finally accessible to everyone—but the polish isn't there yet

Feb 2, 2026

Vibe Check: OpenAI’s Codex App Gains Ground on Claude Code

OpenAI nailed the interface. But it's built for hardcore engineering.

Feb 18, 2026

Vibe Check: Anthropic Just Made Opus Cheaper Without Calling It That

Sonnet 4.6 delivers Opus-close performance at half the price—but speed didn't come along for the ride

Mar 5, 2026

Vibe Check: GPT-5.4—OpenAI Is Back

GPT-5.4 is fast, opinionated, and good enough to tempt our Opus loyalist

Feb 5, 2026

Vibe Check: Opus 4.6—The Best Coding Model We’ve Tested (With Some Maddening Habits)

It one-shotted a problem other models missed—and brings agentic, parallel work to non-coding tasks

Apr 2, 2026

Vibe Check: Cursor 3.0 Bets Big on Agent Orchestration

The AI-native IDE is now becoming an agent-orchestration tool. Will it work?

Jan 22, 2026

What the Team Behind Cursor Knows About the Future of Code

Cursor team members share their thoughts on building software with AI and why model selection beats prompting tricks

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