# Katie Parrott

I’m Katie Parrott. I make stuff with words.

Staff writer, AI editorial lead, and member of the Frontier Team at Every. Columbus, Ohio.

## Projects

### Compound Writing

A writing plugin for Claude and Codex. A context-first writing toolbox for developing ideas, drafting, revising, stress-testing, and preparing work for publication without sanding off the writer.

- [The plugin on GitHub](https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-writing)
- [Compound Writing: The Ultimate Guide](https://every.to/guides/compound-writing)

#### Night Shift

Pick up a page at Dispatch and get it into the morning edition. Along the way, the city’s 33 residents each teach a different Compound Writing skill.

[Play Night Shift](https://compound-writing-game.vercel.app/)

### Jerusalem at Passover

I built this model of Jerusalem with Fable 5.2 from a single prompt.

> Build an immersive, historically accurate 3D model of Jerusalem during the week of Jesus's final visit.

It took 24 hours and 4.2 billion tokens to build. You can walk through the city, fly over it, or take a guided tour.

- [Open Jerusalem at Passover](https://fable-jerusalem.vercel.app)

### Marginalia

The Bible study notebook I built for myself and use regularly. The AI in it helps me organize and find my notes. It never writes them.

- [Try the Marginalia demo](https://marginalia-demo-one.vercel.app)
- [About the Marginalia notebook](/marginalia/)

## Writing

### Working Overtime

My column at Every on how technology is changing work.

- [Writing With AI Is Harder Than You Think](https://every.to/working-overtime/writing-with-ai-is-harder-than-you-think) (Apr 2026)
- [AI Was Supposed to Free My Time. It Consumed It.](https://every.to/working-overtime/ai-was-supposed-to-free-my-time-it-consumed-it) (Mar 2026)
- [AI Solved the Problem I Couldn’t Explain to Managers](https://every.to/working-overtime/ai-isn-t-making-me-more-productive-it-s-making-it-possible-to-work-at-all) (Nov 2025)
- [How to Keep Your Writing Weird in the Age of AI](https://every.to/working-overtime/how-to-keep-your-writing-weird-in-the-age-of-ai) (Jun 2025)
- [I Vibe Coded a Security Risk](https://every.to/working-overtime/i-vibe-coded-a-security-risk) (Aug 2026)

### Guides

Long how-to guides, published by Every.

- [Compound Writing: The Ultimate Guide](https://every.to/guides/compound-writing) (Sep 2026)
- [How to Build an AI Style Guide](https://every.to/guides/how-to-build-an-ai-style-guide) (Mar 2026)

### Vibe Check

Every's hands-on reviews of new AI models.

- [Vibe Check: Fable 5.2 Is a Paradigm Shift—If You Know What to Do With It](https://every.to/vibe-check/fable-5-2) (Nov 2026)
- [Vibe Check: GPT-6 Astra Is a Big Upgrade With Some Bad Habits](https://every.to/vibe-check/gpt-6-astra-vibe-check) (Sep 2026)

### The Curiosity Gap

My personal newsletter. Longer, weirder, more confessional.

- [Friday Night Bible Study with ChatGPT](https://katieparrott.substack.com/p/friday-night-bible-study-with-chatgpt) (Jul 2025)
- [My Diagnosis](https://katieparrott.substack.com/p/my-diagnosis) (Sep 2024)

## About

I write, test, and build with AI, then report what works for me so others can decide what works for them.

I majored in English and German literature in college, to the bemusement of many. I spent a year after undergrad “teaching” English in Frankfurt, Germany, a futile mission in a part of the country where everyone speaks English anyway.

I got my first job after that writing pitch decks and crowdfunding websites for startups in the post-JOBS Act era. Since then I’ve been in-house, freelance, agency-side, and now I’m at Every.

And yes, I do it all from Columbus, Ohio, where I live with my perfect precious angel, Ava.

Essays, apps, and agents—because words are magic.

## Questions I get about AI

- **Does AI write your essays for you?** “One of my editors just happens to be an AI. The rest is still me.” ([Writing With AI Is Harder Than You Think](https://every.to/working-overtime/writing-with-ai-is-harder-than-you-think))
- **Is writing with AI the lazy way out?** “I engineered a system that regularly humiliates me, and I keep coming back for more. If that’s not commitment to the craft, I don’t know what is.” ([Writing With AI Is Harder Than You Think](https://every.to/working-overtime/writing-with-ai-is-harder-than-you-think))
- **Does AI actually save you time?** “Once AI clicks for someone, they don’t use it to work less. They use it to work more.” ([AI Was Supposed to Free My Time. It Consumed It.](https://every.to/working-overtime/ai-was-supposed-to-free-my-time-it-consumed-it))
- **Why is it so hard to stop prompting?** “When a prompt fails, I’m convinced the next one will crack it. When it succeeds, the hit of accomplishment sends me straight into the next task.” ([AI Was Supposed to Free My Time. It Consumed It.](https://every.to/working-overtime/ai-was-supposed-to-free-my-time-it-consumed-it))
- **How do you know AI is worth it?** “For me, the proof of AI’s value is in the fact that I’m still here, doing work I’m proud of.” ([AI Solved the Problem I Couldn’t Explain to Managers](https://every.to/working-overtime/ai-isn-t-making-me-more-productive-it-s-making-it-possible-to-work-at-all))
- **What is the most valuable use of AI?** “The technologies that change the very texture of work—that make it possible to move with ease instead of fighting yourself every day—might be the most valuable AI applications we build.” ([AI Solved the Problem I Couldn’t Explain to Managers](https://every.to/working-overtime/ai-isn-t-making-me-more-productive-it-s-making-it-possible-to-work-at-all))
- **Will AI make everyone’s writing sound the same?** “When everyone has access to the same polishing tool, we risk a kind of digital invisibility—millions of pieces of content, all professionally adequate, none memorable.” ([How to Keep Your Writing Weird in the Age of AI](https://every.to/working-overtime/how-to-keep-your-writing-weird-in-the-age-of-ai))
- **How should writers work with AI?** “The art lies in building a collaborative process where AI helps you discover and structure your ideas, but you remain the final arbiter of texture—knowing when smoothness serves your purpose, and when roughness is exactly what the piece needs.” ([How to Keep Your Writing Weird in the Age of AI](https://every.to/working-overtime/how-to-keep-your-writing-weird-in-the-age-of-ai))
- **Can AI write in your voice?** “Astra can write a full article that sounds like me and make substantial revisions from an editor’s feedback.” ([Vibe Check: GPT-6 Astra Is a Big Upgrade With Some Bad Habits](https://every.to/vibe-check/gpt-6-astra-vibe-check))
- **Can AI be a good teacher?** “ChatGPT had become the kind of teacher I’d always wanted: able to go as fast and as deep as I wanted to, without having to wait for any other kids in the class to catch up.” ([Friday Night Bible Study with ChatGPT](https://katieparrott.substack.com/p/friday-night-bible-study-with-chatgpt))
- **Is AI good for anything besides work?** “AI has put me back in touch with something that I haven’t felt since undergrad: the pure pleasure of learning for its own sake.” ([Friday Night Bible Study with ChatGPT](https://katieparrott.substack.com/p/friday-night-bible-study-with-chatgpt))

## Contact

- [Every](https://every.to/@katie.parrott12)
- [The Curiosity Gap](https://katieparrott.substack.com)
- [X](https://x.com/kplikethebird)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/kplikethebird)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/katieparrott)
- [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/katieparrott.bsky.social)

## Changelog

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