Writing automation workshop with Mike Taylor at Every Think Week
Mike Taylor, head of evals at Every, runs a live Think Week workshop on getting AI to write in your own voice. His method uses an automated test that checks which draft sounds more like your published work.
The gist
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Taylor says he once fully automated his writing with GPT-4, which felt empty, so now he uses AI only as a ghostwriter for real ideas.
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His key trick is turning past posts into style-free briefs, then having Claude judge which of two drafts is closer to what he actually published.
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Taylor says to start with at least 10 similar pieces, ideally 50, and suggests people with little writing get interviewed and use the transcripts.
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His optimized skill won up to about 90% of head-to-heads for about $50 in tokens; Sonnet matched his style best, but he writes with Opus.
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He dictates briefs with Monologue, lets Claude one-shot drafts, and mostly edits intros, cutting editing from a couple of hours to 20 minutes.
"I gave Claude a way to keep improving the skill and then check whether it's doing a good job. So the way the eval metric works, it gets Claude to generate the writing. It's given a brief... And that works. And it's kind of simple, it's kind of elegant."
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See all on the Claude page"Just get someone to interview you, even if a couple of hours of interviews on different topics, and you're going to have more material than you know what to do with... I found that a human interviewer, especially if you're in the same room instead of on Zoom, you just have mor..."
▶ Play at 28:26"This is just the transcript, for I use Monologue to transcribe, you know, another plug for Every product... I'll create a tab called prompt and then I'll monologue into that tab."
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"I gave Claude a way to keep improving the skill and then check whether it's doing a good job. So the way the eval metric works, it gets Claude to generate the writing. It's give..."
"Just get someone to interview you, even if a couple of hours of interviews on different topics, and you're going to have more material than you know what to do with... I found t..."
"I think it was around GPT-4 I managed to fully automate my writing. I had my LinkedIn completely automated... I'd even written a whole e-book using GPT-4, and when I sent it to ..."
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