Sterling Crispin 🕊️ on AI

Sterling Crispin 🕊️@sterlingcrispin

Yesterday, Claude deleted the entire Gmail history of a woman who works as an AI safety researcher at Meta's superintelligence team. Today, we're learning it's moving on to tackle COBOL running 43% of the banking system, 93% of ATMs, the IRS, and $3T of daily settlements. Nice.

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Why it worked

Uses concrete numbers instead of vague claims, which makes it credible and quotable.
Points at real customers, users or results as evidence rather than assertion.
Written from experience rather than as advice, which is harder to argue with.
Short enough to read in full without expanding, which removes a step before the point lands.

The mechanics

Hook: Plain observation
Structure: Hook → Landing
Style: Conversational paragraphs at a steady pace.
Tone: corporate
Mechanisms: Specificity, Social proof
Written for: People building with AI

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