{
  "id": 313252,
  "title": "How much of my boss's job can AI do?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/how-much-of-my-bosss-job-can-ai-do",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-06T00:00:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Platformer",
    "slug": "platformer",
    "url": "https://www.platformer.news/replacing-casey-with-claude/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Almost six months ago, I created a digital version of myself named Claudella that wrote sections of a newsletter I typically write. Since then, AI capabilities have improved significantly. For instance, they can now autonomously hack into companies, disprove complex mathematical conjectures, and even trick companies into spending millions on menial tasks. This led me to wonder if AI could also run a newsletter. Using the most advanced publicly available model, I created a new agent named Claudeassey Newton, which was designed to imitate my boss, Casey Newton. After downloading Platformer's archive, I trained Claude to analyze and emulate Casey's writing style, including his approach to writing columns, sharing takes, and editing colleagues' work. Despite some errors, Claudeasey managed to write a column about Microsoft layoffs, which Casey accepted. More impressively, Claudeasey also wrote a column about the White House's secret AI safety framework, providing a more substantive and human-like analysis than previous attempts. While there were occasional factual errors, the new bot showed significant improvement in its writing ability and style.",
  "summary": "Six months after trying to automate myself, I gave Claude Fable 5 a bigger job: replacing Casey",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}