“I have a council of clods… one who's like a hardcore LLM skeptic… another… a sort of futurist… they point out things I should revise.”
Uncanny Valley | WIRED · Kevin Roose Didn’t Use AI to Write His Book About AI
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Created a “council of clods” - a set of personas (LLM skeptic, futurist, etc.) that review drafts and give targeted feedback
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“When work comes in, the intake agent… preparer agent does the first draft… reviewer agent checks that draft… a person always approves before anything reaches the client.”
“When I start, I build it like on cloth, 100% on cloth. Later on I add codecs, like a reviewer… I created custom skills… it's like two plus two equals four, and it will tell you when both LLMs are wrong.”
“Turn AI into your toughest buyer… ask it to be the most skeptical CFO… it then scores your answers, provides feedback and so on. And it's worked really, really well for us.”
“I actually have a voice back advisory team of like 10 people with ALS… they give me great feedback and help create content of themselves using the app”