Playing Games With AI

Hello, and happy Sunday! By now you’ve probably read your fair share about Claude Code on Every. Do you want to learn how we use it? No coding experience required! Join Dan Shipper for a full-day beginner’s workshop on November 19 where you'll learn Claude Code from scratch. Install it on your machine, build a live project, and leave with skills you can use immediately. Early bird pricing is $1,000 (and includes an annual Every subscription)—but only until October 23.—Kate Lee

Knowledge base

"Seeing Business Like a Language Model" by Dan Shipper/Chain of Thought: Dan argues that successful founders don't follow universal rules—say, Porter’s Five Forces; they develop gut-level intuition through repeated exposure to real contexts, learning to predict the next right move the way language models predict the next token. Read this if you want to stop chasing frameworks and start building authentic business instincts.

"Our New Incubation Raised $3.6 Million to Teach AIs to Play Games" by Dan Shipper/Chain of Thought: Every's AI Diplomacy project went viral, with 60,000 readers and 50,000 Twitch viewers watching frontier models lie, cheat, and betray each other—and now it's spinning out as Good Start Labs with serious funding from General Catalyst and Inovia. Read this to see how playing games could be the secret sauce for training better AI models.