Plus: A creative studio puts Astra to work on visual effects, 13 beliefs about writing with AI, and a Vibe Check of a new kind of model

Nine workflows and prompts from this week’s three editions.

“Vibe Check: Is Astra a Breakthrough for Indie Filmmakers?”：https://every.to/p/vibe-check-is-astra-a-breakthrough-for-indie-filmmakers by Cyrus Duff：https://every.to/@cyrus.duff and Josh Lee：https://every.to/@josh.lee.afterimage / Vibe Check：https://every.to/vibe-check : Cyrus Duff：https://every.to/@cyrus.duff and Josh Lee：https://every.to/@josh.lee.afterimage , cofounders of the creative studio Afterimage, tested GPT-6 Astra on visual effects work they would normally outsource to a specialist—adding a wineglass to a table. It’s good at rigid objects like buildings and glassware and at running professional tools on its own, but it can’t yet make living things or anything that touches the scene look convincing. For a two-person studio, that’s work they used to outsource.

🖥 “Mini-Vibe Check: TypeSafe’s Jev Judged Everything I’ve Written in 0.7 Seconds”：https://every.to/also-true-for-humans/mini-vibe-check-typesafe-s-jev-judged-everything-i-ve-written-in-0-7-seconds by Mike Taylor：https://every.to/@mike_2114 / Also True for Humans：https://every.to/also-true-for-humans : TypeSafe’s new model, Jev, takes a yes-or-no question in plain English and returns a number indicating the likelihood of yes, so other software can use it without human review. Mike ran his whole Every archive through it in less than a second for a fraction of a cent. 🖥 Watch：https://x.com/jackcheng/status/2100729670991802386 Jack Cheng：https://every.to/@jackcheng draw and move shapes on a canvas by talking and pointing at his webcam, as Jev executes each command in less than half a second.

“13 Beliefs About AI Writing”：https://every.to/also-true-for-humans/ai-writing-beliefs by Mike Taylor：https://every.to/@mike_2114 / Also True for Humans：https://every.to/also-true-for-humans : Mike drafts almost everything he publishes with AI, and his first rule is to make the prompt larger than the output. If ChatGPT could have written it, he doesn’t bother. He still writes his own tweets and Slack messages, because that’s where his essays start. Our How：https://every.to/guides/compound-writing We：https://every.to/p/what-writers-who-use-ai-want-you-to Write Now：https://every.to/also-true-for-humans/ai-writing-beliefs series closes with a live write-along with Mike and Katie Parrott：https://every.to/@katie.parrott12 on Wednesday, September 23, at 1 p.m. ET on X.

“What Playing With AI Taught Me About My Work”：https://every.to/working-overtime/what-playing-with-ai-taught-me-about-my-work by Katie Parrott：https://every.to/@katie.parrott12 / Working Overtime：https://every.to/working-overtime : Katie argues you can take something useful from an experiment without turning it into your next assignment. She had Astra turn her Compound Writing：https://every.to/guides/compound-writing skills into creatures, and working out what each character wanted led her to add questions about fulfilling readers’ needs to her writing toolkit. Plus : Get “Is this anything?,” her skill for finding value in a single AI session.

“You’re Probably Sleeping On Computer Use”：https://every.to/context-window/you-re-probably-sleeping-on-computer-use by Laura Entis：https://every.to/@laura_27bbaf_1 / Context Window：https://every.to/context-window : Mike rated GPT-6 Astra a yellow in the September 3 Vibe Check. Less than two weeks later, it’s his daily driver, because computer use filled out school forms, built six course decks, and checked every link in his book proofs.

“Show Us Your Folders”：https://every.to/context-window/show-us-your-folders by Katie Parrott：https://every.to/@katie.parrott12 / Context Window：https://every.to/context-window : Anthropic merged Chat and Cowork into one Claude that picks the tools for each task itself, which puts Anthropic and OpenAI on the path to the single desktop app for knowledge work we predicted in April：https://every.to/context-window/show-us-your-folders#signal . Also inside: Dario Amodei wants to slow the frontier, and Dan counters with a plan to make frontier AI widely available, starting with an antivirus for the AI age that makes defensive agents available to ordinary people.

“Why You Should Burn More Tokens”：https://every.to/context-window/why-you-should-burn-more-tokens by Laura Entis：https://every.to/@laura_27bbaf_1 / Context Window：https://every.to/context-window : Dan uses more than three times as many tokens as anyone else at Every and worries that low spend means thinking too small. With Willie Williams：https://every.to/@williewilliams , he settled on a starting point: Find the engineering team’s biggest constraints and test whether AI can remove them.

Read six more predictions from frontier builders and thinkers in Thesis Statements：https://every.to/thesis-statements , a collection of specific, contestable claims about the future of great human work with AI.

Join us at our inaugural Thesis: 2027：https://every.to/thesis-2027 conference on November 5, 2026.

Get hands-on with how Every uses AI. At these live camps, workshops, and meetups：https://every.to/events , team members teach our workflows.

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