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Katie Parrott / Every / October 2024 - now

I started by writing about AI. Then it changed the job I had to do.

Working Overtime began as my dispatch from inside a changing working life. It led into a larger role at Every: testing new models, writing practical guides, building tools, and helping readers figure out how to use AI deeply without handing over their judgment.

Working Overtime / Vibe Check / Guides / Context Window Staff writer & AI editorial lead
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The through-line

Every works at the frontier. I translate the frontier into a map others can follow.

I put the newest capabilities into an actual writer's working life, notice the relief and the failure modes, and turn the result into something readers can use. Sometimes that is an essay. Sometimes it is a guide, a benchmark, an app, or an argument with an AI pope.

Write

Working Overtime

The lived experience of AI at work: ambition, ease, voice, compulsion, and agency.

Test & teach

Vibe Check + Guides

What the models can do now, and the workflows that make those capabilities usable.

Build

Tools + experiments

Tastemaker, agents, and interactive projects that make the argument concrete.

Recent work across Every / 2026

The role now moves between story, system, and test.

The newest work makes that movement unusually literal. I co-tested Anthropic's Fable 5, wrote about the robot editorial board I use on my own drafts, and published those reviewers as a kit anyone can install. The story, system, and test now feed one another.

Jun 09
Vibe Check Vibe Check: Fable 5 Is the Best Coding Model in the World The strongest coding model Every has tested, and a test of when whole-job delegation earns its time and cost. Jun 08
Working Overtime My Editor Caught Me Sounding Like AI. Now AI Catches Me First. What happened when I turned my editor's notes and recurring failures into a fleet of AI reviewers. Jun 08
Open-source kit Draft Review Kit An installable editorial board for stress-testing arguments, reader comprehension, pace, tension, and prose. May 26
Guide Codex for Knowledge Work A setup and seven-day plan for turning an agent into support for research, planning, writing, and reporting. May 18
Working Overtime How to Start a Career When AI Is Doing Your Entry-level Job Four pieces of advice for gaining judgment when the old training ground is shifting.

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Start where the Every journey becomes yours.

Pick the sentence nearest to your week. I will give you a Working Overtime story and the guide, tool, or wider Every conversation it opens into.

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My Every arc / selected stops

I came in through a column. The job kept growing.

Working Overtime now runs to 25 essays. Along the way, writing about AI opened into building editorial systems, testing models, making products, and translating Every's frontier work into something readers can take into their own jobs.

  1. 01 Oct 2024 - Feb 2025

    I entered Every through the human question.

    Working Overtime started with career panic and a chat window. The early question was intimate and enormous at once: what happens to a knowledge worker when intelligence gets cheap?

    I Hired ChatGPT as My Career Coach The Once and Future History of Knowledge Work What Happens When AI Joins the Org Chart?
  2. 02 Mar - Jul 2025

    Writing about capability made me a builder.

    I was reporting on AI's effect on jobs while using it to cross the boundary of my own. A literature major became the person building workflow tools for Every in public.

    I Tried AI Coding Tools. Now I Want to Learn to Code. It's Me, Hi. I'm the Vibe Coder. AI Doesn't Care About Your Résumé
  3. 03 Aug - Nov 2025

    My editorial taste became infrastructure.

    The reporting and the making converged. I encoded Every's standards, trained writing partners on my voice, ran models in parallel, and wrote about the support that made work possible.

    I Taught Claude Every's Standards. It Taught Me Mine. How I Run Three AI Models in Parallel Without Losing My Mind AI Solved the Problem I Couldn't Explain to Managers
  4. 04 Jan - Apr 2026

    The experiment became an argument about agency.

    Building more with AI gave me better evidence about its cost. I wrote through compulsion, AI writing, and autopilot: the moment when a useful tool gets fluent enough to hide your own absence.

    AI Was Supposed to Free My Time. It Consumed It. Writing With AI Is Harder Than You Think How I Escaped AI Autopilot
  5. 05 May 2026 - now

    Now I work across Every's AI ecosystem.

    The latest work reaches beyond the column: agent-managed workweeks, career advice for an automated era, Codex workflows, model tests, and cultural arguments about automation. The recurring question is still which decisions remain ours.

    I Let ChatGPT Manage My Workweek How to Start a Career When AI Is Doing Your Entry-level Job Codex for Knowledge Work Vibe Check: Opus 4.8

My work at Every

What the work looks like now

I write about AI and work, test new models, teach practical workflows, and build editorial tools.

Write

Working Overtime

First-person essays about how AI changes work, judgment, ambition, and daily life.

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Test

Vibe Check

Hands-on evaluations of new AI models across coding, writing, and knowledge work.

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Katie at Every

The tools got more capable. My job became helping people use that capability on purpose.

Working Overtime is where I narrate the change from inside it. The rest of my work at Every is where I test, build, and hand over what I learn.

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