Katie Parrott

Staff Writer & AI Editorial Lead

Katie Parrott is a staff writer. She writes Working Overtime and contributes to Vibe Checks, Source Code, and Context Window.

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May 4, 2026

I Let ChatGPT Manage My Workweek

My AI project manager reads my OKRs, calendar, Notion, and Slack so I can stay on top of my work

Dec 19, 2025

OpenAI Gave Us a Glimpse Into Their AI Coding Playbook

Lessons from the team that built Codex and launched a number-one app with it

May 9, 2025

Vibe Check: Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash

Why Google might quietly win the race to be AI’s top backend provider

May 5, 2026

The Dawn of Codex-native Apps

Plus: Delegation versus collaboration, Dan’s inbox-zero Codex workflow, and the agentic version of Musk’s five rules of automation

Mar 19, 2026

How to Build an AI Style Guide

A step-by-step guide to teaching a language model to write like you

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

Feb 17, 2026

How to Build Agent-native: Lessons From Four Apps

Start with three simple tools, and let the AI figure out the rest

Apr 21, 2026

Mini-Vibe Check: Claude Design Isn’t for Designers—Yet

Plus: Vercel and Lovable’s security woes, and how to make your agent your watchdog

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

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.

Apr 17, 2026

Vibe Check: Opus 4.7 Stopped Reading Between the Lines

Anthropic's latest Opus is more precise, more literal, and the best coding model we've tested on well-specified tasks—but it won't fill in the gaps for you anymore

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

May 19, 2026

Inside the 100-agent Software Factory

A mini-Vibe Check on Gas City, a Grok classifier that grades your X drafts, and why HTML is the new markdown

Apr 28, 2026

One App to Rule All Knowledge Work

Plus: Agent-designed automations, why final review belongs in the destination app, and how to use our compound knowledge plugin

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

May 12, 2026

The Fallacy of the 16-hour Agent

Plus: Perplexity’s rules for agent skills, the office politics of dictation, and creating a weekend AI piano coach

Apr 23, 2026

Vibe Check: GPT-5.5 Has It All

OpenAI’s new model is a top-end senior engineer—and easy to talk to

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

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

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