
Clara Collier
1
APPEARANCES
1
PODCASTS
012
DEC 30
JAN 6
JAN 13
JAN 20
JAN 27
FEB 3
FEB 10
FEB 17
FEB 24
MAR 3
MAR 10
MAR 17
MAR 24
MAR 31
APR 7
APR 14
APR 21
APR 28
MAY 5
MAY 12
MAY 19
MAY 26
JUN 2
JUN 9
JUN 16
JUN 23
JUN 30
JUL 7
JUL 14
JUL 21
JUL 28
AUG 4
AUG 11
AUG 18
AUG 25
SEP 1
SEP 8
SEP 15
SEP 22
SEP 29
OCT 6
OCT 13
OCT 20
OCT 27
NOV 3
NOV 10
NOV 17
NOV 24
DEC 1
DEC 8
DEC 15
DEC 22
DEC 29
JAN 5
JAN 12
JAN 19
JAN 26
FEB 2
FEB 9
FEB 16
FEB 23
MAR 2
MAR 9
MAR 16
MAR 23
MAR 30
APR 6
APR 13
APR 20
APR 27
MAY 4
MAY 11
MAY 18
MAY 25
JUN 1
JUN 8
JUN 15
JUN 22
JUN 29
JUL 6
JUL 13
JUL 20
JUL 27
AUG 3
AUG 10
AUG 17
AUG 24
AUG 31
SEP 7
SEP 14
Jul 16, 2026
What LLMs can and can't do for writers, with Clara Collier of Asterisk Magazine
25:58
26:15
26:47
76:19

Clara CollierGUEST
And I'll use this to generate a rubric, and then I'll have it apply the rubric to drafts, and then I'll like do a back and forth with how it applies the rubric and use that to like update the rubric further and see like can this produce something that is capable of giving like good feedback but also like asterisk-y feedback.

Clara CollierGUEST
And I was doing this process yesterday with Fable, uh, the, the new, um, Claude model to see if it was an improvement over Opus 4.6. And at one point it said to me, 'cause we were like going through a different set of examples, "I notice I am making a lot of updates on every individual case here, and like because of like the nature of the entity that I am, I am inclined to over update on individual like case studies instead of drawing the appropriate broad spectrum conclusions." I'm like, "Yes.

Clara CollierGUEST
And that is what you do and that is the thing that I'm trying to overcome here."
49 MINS LATER
P
76:11Patrick McKenzieHOST
Uh, and, uh, defined in the document multiple times, in case you don't know what a PAC is, it's when, uh, this guy is, uh, attempting to do fundraising and get people to rallies, et cetera, et cetera.

Clara CollierGUEST
And I want to, stepping back, how do you, like, what do you do with a story where, like, frankly, you know that a lot of people who are reading this are not going to make that distinction, and a lot of people who are reading this are going to use what you have...