Katie Parrott open-sources her two-year ChatGPT writing system as a plugin
every · x · 2026-09-03
On Every's AI & I podcast, Katie Parrott explains how she turned two years of ChatGPT habits into an open-source writing system:
- Started using ChatGPT as an unaffordable career-coach substitute after a layoff, growing into a "content agency of one."
- Method: good writing starts with good ingredients—audience personas, brand positioning, differentiators as context files, predating "context engineering."
- Compound Writing plugin: chains brainstorming, outlining, drafting, and editing, with review skills modeled on Vonnegut, Hitchcock, and Sorkin.
- Her career coach is now a fully autonomous Codex project.
- Her thesis: education and access matter more than ever.
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