Core directives The heart of the style guide is the section I call the core directives. This is where I’ve tried to pin down the essence of a Working Overtime essay: a voice rooted inside the ...

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ChatGPT’s version of R. Lee Ermey in the 1987 movie Full Metal Jacket. Source: ChatGPT-4o image generation/Dan Shipper. To my delight, Opus is a good judge of writing. To test it, I worked with Spiral ...

Six seconds later, I was staring at a scrollable epic, complete with revenue mix, milestones mapped to the quarter, and a five‑bullet case for why this future is “plausible.” In o3’s 2030, I’m editor ...