Katie Parrott

6 days ago | every.to | Alex Duffy |Katie Parrott |Rhea Purohit |Scott Nover

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. We're at a rare moment: Some of the world’s richest companies are practically giving away access to their most powerful AI models in an effort to become kings of the next technological frontier.

1 week ago | every.to | Katie Parrott

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. Google's Gemini models may not dominate conversations (or searches) like OpenAI’s—but they’re starting to dominate something more important: the developer software stack. Inside Every, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash are already powering production workflows, and Flash runs quietly in the background of products like Cora and Sparkle.

2 weeks ago | every.to | Katie Parrott

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. I was taking a break one Saturday morning from building a tool for Every when an X post about “vibe coding” crossed my feed: "There is no consumer desire to 'make apps,'" the post proclaimed.

3 weeks ago | katieparrott.substack.com | Katie Parrott

Back in January, a LinkedIn post made a splash within a particular corner of the internet: content marketers. I was riveted at the time—so much so that I wrote this entire essay, then promptly put it in a digital drawer and forgot about it. This piece isn’t a recap of that incident so much as an excavation of what it exposed: the insecurities, incentives, and identity questions baked into modern content work. Yes, it’s about SEO—but only on the surface.

1 month ago | katieparrott.substack.com | Katie Parrott

Editor’s Note: I’ve been on a bit of an AI-enabled bender lately—building apps, writing essays, accidentally outlining novels at 1 AM. I’m telling you this for two reasons: first, it’s why I’ve been AWOL from this newsletter for a while (that, and I way overcomitted to client work, as one does). And second, because it’ll probably inform a lot of the content you see here moving forward. As always, thank you for reading The Curiosity Gap.