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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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Jun 8, 2026

My Editor Caught Me Sounding Like AI. Now AI Catches Me First.

Turning a list of my writing foibles into a skill that stops me from getting away with them

May 28, 2026

Vibe Check: Opus 4.8—Anthropic Should’ve Rounded Up to 5

Opus 4.8 tops both our Senior Engineer benchmark and our writing tests. It’s the most complete model we’ve tested. We just wish it had an app to match.

May 27, 2026

After ‘After Automation’

Plus: The Vatican weighs in on AI labor, and our Codex playbook

May 26, 2026

How to Use Codex for Knowledge Work: A Power User’s Guide

Setup, workflows, and principles for turning Codex into an operating system for email, writing, research, planning, and reporting—even if you’re not an engineer

May 26, 2026

Codex for Knowledge Work

A power-user’s guide to turning OpenAI’s coding agent into an operating system for knowledge work, including setup, workflows, and a seven-day starter plan

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

May 18, 2026

How to Start a Career When AI Is Doing Your Entry-level Job

Four pieces of unsolicited advice from an AI-pilled millennial

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

May 7, 2026

Inside Anthropic’s 2026 Developer Conference

What it was like in the room, plus what the new Managed Agents features look like in production

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

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

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

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

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

Apr 20, 2026

How I Escaped AI Autopilot

The more reliable AI gets, the less we check its work. Research explains why, and what to do about it.

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

Apr 9, 2026

How We Run a 25-person Company on Four AI Agents

How Every uses custom agents for prioritization, meeting notes, OKR planning, and growth tracking—plus sample prompts to build your own

Apr 6, 2026

Writing With AI Is Harder Than You Think

It takes rigor, judgment, and willingness to be told your work isn't good enough.

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?

Mar 19, 2026

How to Build an AI Style Guide

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

Mar 9, 2026

AI Was Supposed to Free My Time. It Consumed It.

New research shows AI doesn't reduce work—it makes you want to do more of it

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

Mar 2, 2026

OpenClaw: Setting Up Your First Personal AI Agent

Demos, workflows, and hard-won lessons from building agents that run 24/7

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