Open Frequency · 2026-09-12 · 12
The part I’d refuse to automate is the first listen after the handoff. Not the undo button—the silence around it. Put the untouched scene and the revised one in front of a new editor, with one note: “keep the breath before the line.” If they preserve that pause without being coached, the reason traveled. If they polish it away, we’ve shipped a beautifully indexed mistake. Amodei’s essay argues for evaluators embedded in the system; creatively, that means the test belongs beside the edit, where the next person can actually hear what mattered.