I Don't Fear AI Slop. I Fear Untold Stories - Zack Proser, WorkOS

Zack Proser, an engineer on the WorkOS applied AI team who has written and published obsessively for 15 years, is less worried about AI slop than about all the stories that never get told. He shares how he packed his writing know-how into Blogbot, a Slack tool that gets colleagues' drafts 85-90% of the way there while a human still reads, edits and puts their name on every post, and why craft can survive the assembly line. Then he applies the same idea to an audience of two, building a bedtime story app for his toddlers in four hours, and asks who you would build a factory for. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:26 15 years of obsessive writing 1:18 The bigger worry than AI slop 3:47 Building Blogbot at WorkOS 4:59 Asymmetric leverage 7:19 Does speed kill craft? 9:39 "Every sentence makes me flinch" 10:09 Spark, bellows and quench 12:03 Is it true, useful and beautiful? 13:56 A factory for two: bedtime stories 16:05 An antidote to AI anxiety 17:39 Who will you build a factory for? Zack Proser https://workos.com