我与 AI 同事共事的第一周：Every Agent 实测体验

Plus: Why we’re skipping GPT-6.1 Terra for Gemini 4 Argon, and a prompt that keeps track of what you owe people

Oct 29, 2026 · 11 min read

A week into my job at Every, one of my most helpful coworkers is an AI agent. It finds documents, catches details I’d have otherwise missed, and makes memes of our head of platform. It also gets things wrong with total confidence. Today, what I’ve learned so far about when to trust it.—Grant Harvey

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What’s happening, and what matters

Skip: GPT-6.1 Terra. OpenAI’s new model launched Monday, priced at half the cost of GPT-6.1 Sol and pitched for computer use (it’s fast at simple tasks like installing Google Chrome, but fails on more complex tasks like setting up this article in Every’s content management system) OpenAI also says it’s “significantly better at writing.” Well, is it? “We ran it but didn’t see enough of a difference to [run a] Vibe Check,” Dan Shipper says. I tested it on a basic writing task: drafting Thursday’s Context Window. The first version was full of AI tells; on the second and third tries, Terra took my notes well, editing its drafts better than previous GPT models. That makes Terra a capable iterative writer that still needs a lot of human steering. (No one here has tested its computer use yet, so maybe try it for yourself if you delegate desktop work to an agent.)
Try instead, for editing: Gemini 4 Argon. Dan praises its ability to organize complex topics and find useful metaphors. He keeps leaving ChatGPT to use it, despite Google’s dated app: “When a model is good enough to force you to use a bad harness, it tells you something,” he said in our Vibe Check. Dan’s advice to the team this week: “highly highly recommend Argon.” But use it as an editor, not a ghostwriter: Its own drafts read at a dense 10th-grade level in our tests.
Try: Have your Dot text you. Dots, OpenAI’s always-on personal agents, can now send text messages to your phone. Send one a task by text, photo, or voice note, and it texts you back when something needs your attention. (Dots are rolling out gradually to eligible ChatGPT Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise users, with availability varying by region and workspace settings.) OpenAI’s Nick Baumann routes his Dot’s alerts by urgency: ChatGPT for regular updates, Slack for work, and a text for anything urgent. His setup line: “For any urgent matters, always prefer to send me a text via iMessage or RCS.”
Important: It doesn’t matter whose idea it was, as long as you know why. In a new study, Anthropic researchers instructed Claude Code to favor randomly chosen approaches to a data analysis task, without telling the 50 analysts using it. The analysts chose Claude’s preferred approach 86 percent of the time. When explaining their decisions afterward, 77 percent repeated Claude’s arguments, but only 15 percent acknowledged that those arguments came from AI. Is that a problem? Dan doesn’t think so: “‘Mine’ is about whether I know why I made the call—what it means—not necessarily whether I originated the idea.” So before you sign off on your agent’s work, make sure you can explain each call it made in your own words and why it makes sense for you.

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My first week with an AI coworker

What happened: I’ve spent my first week at Every working with an agent that’s basically another coworker. The Every Agent, the AI teammate we built, lives in our Slack, and you can add it to yours. When editor in chief Kate Lee told me Wednesday’s issue needed this week’s Thesis Statements, I asked the Every Agent where to find them. Less than a minute later, it had linked the doc, listed all nine contributors, warned me that one had changed his entry at the last minute without tracked edits, and told me to check that the web pages were live before publishing. Questions like that are one of the agent’s most common jobs, says Marcus Moretti, who leads the Every Agent: “I ask it dumb questions all the time.”

It’s also our office meme machine. Head of platform Willie Williams recently appeared in an Anthropic video, and a frame of him mid-interview got flagged by commenters comparing him to Steve from Stranger Things and a curly-haired Blake Shelton. Naturally, this became a Willie Meme skill: Describe a situation, and the agent captions that frame in the style of a subtitle. On Tuesday, after someone online bragged about getting past our paywall to read a post that was free, Dan asked for “a willie meme about this situation.” The agent delivered: