@random_walker @sayashk an ai outlet using an ai agent to write about ai sandbagging is genuinely the most 2025 thing ive seen today

Nice to see "churnalism" get automated. An agent cranked this out based on @sayashk's tweet. I hope journalists will leave behind this low-value stuff to AI and focus on the hard parts — digging up non-public info; verification and provenance; supplying unique analysis.

@random_walker @sayashk Classic automation pattern: people find a different low-value task they can still do faster than the agent. Churnalism 2.0 incoming.

@random_walker @sayashk Churnalism or not, it's difficult for anyone (including journalists) to understand the diverse responses to this issue & contextualize & communicate to general public. Too many things happening too fast to cope up with/understand.

@random_walker @sayashk ai taking the boring parts is fine as long as the hard parts still pay the bills. thats the real question.

@random_walker @sayashk Yeah, churnalism dies first. but sourcing, trust-building, calling BS on power. that's the durable edge. beat reporters who spent the hours on that work just got promoted, not replaced.

@random_walker @sayashk real journalists might actually lean into this if it means less filler work

hope the "hard parts" dont get algorithm-brainwashed next

@random_walker @sayashk if the hard parts were paying enough nobody would need an agent to crank out low value stuff first

@random_walker @sayashk journalists rewriting each other's scraps was already machine-ready. now the loop just lost the middleman