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Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. Every time I publish a new essay, I go through the same ritual. I download a Word document of the final draft and upload it to the I have set up for my Every column Working Overtime in ChatGPT. Once it's there, I prompt it with one of my favorite AI incantations: What do you notice? The model responds with a readout of how the new input changes its "theory of Katie"—the features it thinks characterize my writing.

Hello, and happy Sunday! Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. Knowledge base "Vibe Check: GPT-5 Codex Can Code for 35 Minutes Straight—If You Ask Nicely" by Dan Shipper/Vibe Check: OpenAI's new GPT-5 Codex is the assistant that will keep working while you grab coffee, take a nap, or contemplate your life decisions.

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. I spent six months building sophisticated AI products that users tried once and forgot. Then a throwaway weekend build became the one people couldn’t stop talking about—or talking to. First there was TLDR, an AI podcast generator: 10 weeks of work, great initial response, zero returning users. Then there was Kairos, an AI reading app: 1,000 downloads on day one, ghost town by day three.

The transcript of AI & I with Monologue general manager Naveen Naidu and Every COO Brandon Gell is below. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

TL;DR: Today we’re releasing a new episode of our podcast AI & I. Dan Shipper sits down with our entrepreneur in residence Naveen Naidu and COO Brandon Gell to talk about how Naveen built Monologue, an AI voice dictation app for Mac that writes the way you talk so you can work faster without breaking flow. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Here’s a link to the episode transcript. Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox.

TLDR: Today, we’re introducing Monologue, an AI voice dictation app for Mac. It writes the way you talk so you can work 3x faster without breaking flow. Learn more in our video, and try it for free. Monologue is available today as part of a paid Every subscription, along with all of our writing and the other AI apps, including Cora, Spiral, and Sparkle. You talk faster than you type. But speech-to-text apps always leave words lost in translation—until now.

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. GPT-5 Codex is OpenAI's latest update to its coding agent, launching today with two major improvements: dynamic thinking time and seamless hand-offs between local and cloud environments. The handoff is OpenAI's vision for coding: AI that works like a colleague who keeps going when you step away from your desk. What’s new New model (GPT-5 Codex).

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. I’ll start where it started: Gmail, midnight, me looking up from the fluorescent screen to the sky outside my window—dark but open, a few thin clouds drifting past the treetops, the kind of depth that reminds you there’s air beyond the glass. By contrast, the inbox on my screen looked like a lab: white tiles, hard light, rows of cells, sterile and devoid of life.

TL;DR: Today we’re releasing a new episode of our podcast AI & I. Dan Shipper sits down with Noah Brier, thecofounder of Alephic, an AI-first strategy consultancy. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Here’s a link to the episode transcript. Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. It’s 4:30 p.m, and after a long day glued to your screen, you’ve finally stepped out for a walk.

The transcript of AI & I with Noah Brier is below. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.