Building the This Week In POTA newsletter with AI

Today’s This Week in POTA was Ada’s sixth, I think, and there was a significant decline in the quality of the commentary that she provided. It was snarky enough, but the content misattributed at least two quotes and misnamed one person.

The only thing that’s changed is that today’s run was using the new GPT-5.2 model. I believe it launched earlier this week. There was an issue in the Atlas browser where Ada wasn’t able to switch tabs, and another where she wasn’t able to see content because she’d inadvertently logged out of a tab. These are new problems.

I’ll add a few guardrails for next week’s run and more closely check the text. I’m trying to move toward more autonomy, not less, so this is a bit of a setback.