Kate Cox
@kcoxdc.bsky.social
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Now: Making Decoder @ The Verge. Earlier: editor for Protocol; reporter for Ars Technica, CQ Roll Call, Consumerist, and Kotaku; decades of other writing strewn across the internet. Boston-born, now DC-dwelling. She/her.
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![Shishir Mehrotra: Actually, can a creative [writing LLM] work?
Nilay Patel: I’m asking because I don’t think taste is rules-based. Our producers are in the background here just in a puddle, because part of their job every week is to try to write like me. They get a lot of feedback from me directly on that. I’m literally editing the documents so I can read the intros and outros and I’m changing the questions. And it’s really hard even when it’s just three people who have spent years working together to try to get to an output that works. And they’re really good.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wcn7zqiltsrhmwxvk3vgoxrs/bafkreibhmtq6owcz5i6bhcbzahc42rmdqrtcwmb5tg3aa5n2pdkoebj4ui)
