Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei thinks AI made him a better writer and editor and wants to tell us. He’s not showing us his (boring?) prompts, but flexes about a conversation loop that teaches Claude his style.
- Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei outlines his personal AI writing workflow, including wiring style rules into model memory, using Claude and ChatGPT agents, and having an autonomous agent email him story ideas before he wakes up.
- Buried in tip three: he fed four books into the model, two of them unreleased, raising quiet questions about what that means for those authors and publishers.
- The piece is framed as transparency, but reads more as a power-user flex, useful for understanding how a high-profile media executive is actually integrating AI into daily editorial work.
