{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AI & I","title":"How a Professional Writer Writes With AI","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/2b2641f4\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2878,"description":"Two years ago, Katie Parrott was laid off from a crypto firm and couldn’t afford a career coach—so she turned to a $20-a-month ChatGPT subscription instead.\n\nThe Every staff writer’s habit of feeding AI good context eventually became compound writing, a codified system for brainstorming, drafting, and editing with AI. Today, that system is a plugin any writer can use.\n\nOn this week’s AI & I, Natalia Quintero talks with Katie about turning good ingredients into good writing, borrowing the taste of writers she admires, and why AI helped her fall back in love with the page.\n\nIf you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share!\n\nTo hear more from Natalia Quintero:\nSubscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe\nFollow her on X: @NataliaZarina\nGo to https://attio.com/every and get 15% off your first year.\nTimestamps:\n0:00 Start\n0:49 Introduction\n1:21 How Katie went from being laid off to using ChatGPT as a career coach\n8:06 Turning AI into a “content agency of one”\n10:59 Building the context files and style guides that make AI outputs useful\n14:15 What makes a Claude project actually work\n21:18 How AI helped with a mental health crisis and “computer errands”\n27:03 Katie’s career coach, now a fully autonomous Codex project\n32:27 What compounding means, and building the Compound Writing plugin\n38:00 Borrowing Vonnegut, Hitchcock, and Sorkin as AI editing skills\n44:49 Katie’s thesis: education and access will matter more than ever\nLinks to resources mentioned in the episode:\nKatie Parrott on X: @kplikethebird\nCompound writing plugin: https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-writing⁠ \nCompound engineering plugin (Kieran Klassen): github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin\nParrott’s companion piece on compound writing: https://every.to/guides/compound-writing\nParrott, “I Hired ChatGPT as My Career Coach”: every.to/working-overtime/i-hired-chatgpt-as-my-career-coach\nParrott, “AI Turned Me Into a Content Agency of One”:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/tpm1hNSy8JXTtPDypo5McPF0S6eDqruRTGYywu9SVrc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yNDM2/YzU4NDNmYTQxNTJh/MTEzYjE4YmJmYTg5/ODY1NS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}