Jack Cheng

Children’s author, pattern linguist, slow technologist, expert dabbler, senior editor @every. And new dad. Building lively worlds, both real and imagined.

[Dan Shipper 📧 @danshipper]

NEW:

Spiral 4.0—a writing partner for you and your agent by @every

-> Stylometry: we built a new Style Engine based on the principles of stylometry to extract you and your brand's voice and produce great writing every time, based on examples of your past work

-> MCP and CLI: Spiral is now built to be used by your agent like Codex, Claude Code, OpenClaw and more so you can get great writing automatically

we use it every day internally to write landing pages, tweets, podcasts, marketing emails and more and to make sure it's ALL on-brand across our entire 30 person team @every

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

Enamored with this logo/identity from our team:

[Douglas Brundage @DABrundage]

New @TrySpiral just dropped so you can write with AI without sounding like AI. Some frames from our brand evolution, the first I've had the pleasure of working on at @every:

(CC @darustudio, @lucas__crespo, @bran_don_gell)

[Douglas Brundage @DABrundage]

New @TrySpiral just dropped so you can write with AI without sounding like AI. Some frames from our brand evolution, the first I've had the pleasure of working on at @every:

(CC @darustudio, @lucas__crespo, @bran_don_gell)

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

The kid’s been obsessed with ice cream lately so I played the first ice cream truck music playlist that came up on Spotify and of course it turned out to be ✨lofi✨ ice cream truck music

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

You really have to read Ted Chiang on consciousness and AI—just published in The Atlantic:

https://t.co/z9eRSlkwQ8

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

Discovered recently that I have a favorite keyboard shortcut: ⌘⇧D

Obsidian – opens daily note
Cursor – annotates the built-in browser
Ghostyy – split-panes a new terminal window
Finder – opens desktop folder

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

How to fix the most annoying thing about Dia browser

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

Finally saw Project Hail Mary. Loved the warm production design and dreamy, prismatic lighting.

[Brandon Gell @bran_don_gell]

Gift links coming to @every soon, shipped by one of our editors, @jackcheng. If you're entire team isn't shipping PRs, you're ngmi

[Linear Labs @LinearLabs]

J Dilla in his basement studio in Detroit. Records wall to wall, floor to ceiling. The room where Erykah Badu, Common, and Questlove all came to work. Every sample, every chop started somewhere in those crates.

[Kate Lee @katelaurielee]

We’re hiring a NY–based senior video producer at @every.

Help build our video presence across YouTube, X, and LinkedIn, working closely with @danshipper, our product GMs, and the rest of the team to turn day-to-day work into editorial video. Apply here: https://t.co/E6g3vCZceI

[Dan Shipper 📧 @danshipper]

We’ve automated every single thing we can @every with AI agents.

And yet there’s way more human work to do than ever. We’ve gone from 4 -> 30 human employees since GPT-3.

I wrote a report on the structural reasons: how AI makes expert competence cheap, why that drives up demand for experts, and why the dynamic only intensifies as we approach AGI.

After Automation: https://t.co/Lb7SUCduAg

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

Back for the last two sessions

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

I'm in Mountain View today week w/ @alxai_, covering Google I/O for @every, will post live thoughts through the day(s) here!

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

On the "builder energy" in the Bay Area and freneticism/obsession with velocity: Speed is important but it's more important to make sure you have the direction right

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

This year: agents everywhere. Soon: robots

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

Now they're showing the clip from The Thinking Game where Demis says "why don't we just do it?" [sequence all the proteins and release it to the world] https://t.co/PDKDnXst6G

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

On AI backlash: No question there's going to be enormous change, 10x the effect of Industrial Revolution, 10x faster. But the next generation of kids who grow up AI native are going to build the future. But its incumbent on the AI industry now to show the concrete benefits

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

Estimate for AGI is 2030 is plus/minus a year, says Demis

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

Back on the overflow lawn for the Demis Hassabis session. Mike Allen leads off by asking Demis about the "foothills of the singularity" line