How much of my boss's job can AI do?
The author created an AI agent named Claudeasey Newton using Claude Fable 5 to mimic his boss’s journalism tasks at Platformer. The bot was trained on extensive archives and produced columns that were partially accepted, though it still encountered failures during writing. The experiment highlights both the advancing capabilities of AI in media and the ongoing limitations that keep human oversight necessary.
- ▪The author built Claudeasey Newton by feeding it six years of Platformer articles, edit histories, and internal Discord conversations to replicate Casey Newton’s style and workflow.
- ▪The AI generated a column on Microsoft layoffs and later a piece on the White House’s voluntary AI safety framework, with the latter receiving some approval from the real boss.
- ▪During testing, the bot broke midway through a story, requiring human assistance to complete the article.
- ▪The project demonstrates how AI can perform many journalistic functions such as writing and editing, but still struggles with consistency and autonomy.
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| Publication time | Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:06 GMT |
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AI How much of my boss's job can AI do? Six months after trying to automate myself, I gave Claude Fable 5 a bigger job: replacing Casey Ella Markianos 05 Aug 2026 — 8 min read Share Meeting Claudeasey in Discord. Almost six months ago, full of anxiety about my job prospects in the AI age, I made an AI agent “version” of myself named Claudella, which took assignments from my editor and wrote the section of this newsletter that I typically write myself.It went pretty well, although I guess not too well, since I still have a job. But since I first set out to benchmark AI’s journalism capabilities, AIs have gotten a lot smarter. For example, they can now autonomously hack into companies. They can disprove 87-year-old mathematical conjectures.
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