How I Escaped AI Autopilot

This week, the Every team is gathering for Think Week, our twice-yearly meeting to dream up what’s next for Every and our readers. We’re capping it off with our first conference, Thesis: 2027. Register for the livestream to watch all 27 sessions for free.

While we’re together, we’re revisiting some of our favorite pieces on working with agents. Today, Katie Parrott’s April essay on why better AI can make us less careful, and how slowing down helps us give work the scrutiny it needs.—Kaushik Viswanath

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Of all the ways I imagined AI might change my career, “forgetting I already did the assignment” was not on the list.

I had already sent my client a finished draft of an article on hiring best practices in South America, when I happened to reread the brief. A familiar phrase made me realize I had read it before. Then there was the statistic I was pretty sure I had already fact-checked. I clicked back through my files, and there it was: same client, same topic, same deliverable, dated four weeks earlier. It was completed, filed, and forgotten so completely that when a clerical error sent the same brief to my inbox again, I sat down and did the whole thing over.