How a Professional Writer Writes With AI
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Katie Parrott discusses her journey of using AI as a writing tool after being laid off, and how it transformed her writing process.
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. The 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. On 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. If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! To hear more from Natalia Quintero: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe Follow her on X: @NataliaZarina Go to https://attio.com/every and get 15% off your first year. Timestamps for YouTube: 0:00 Start0:49 Introduction1:21 How Katie went from being laid off to using ChatGPT as a career coach8:06 Turning AI into a “content agency of one”10:59 Building the context files and style guides that make AI outputs useful14:15 What makes a Claude project actually work21:18 How AI helped with a mental health crisis and “computer…
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