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Comment by asadotzler | Hacker News Reader

AI blogger seems more appropriate than journalist.

are you aware of any "ai journalists"? Because simonw does great work, so perhaps blogger is what people should aspire towards?

Not sure what an AI journalist is supposed to be or do, but a lack of one does not promote someone who is not it automatically into the position.

I actually talk to journalists on the AI beat quite often - I've had good conversations with them at publications including The Economist and NY Times and Washington Post and ArsTechnica.

They're not going to write up detailed reviews of things like the new Claude code interpreter mode though, because that's not of interest to a general enough audience.

I don't have that restriction: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/9/claude-code-interpreter...

Kylie Robison recently moved to Wired and is a solid "AI journalist".

Although she is indeed solid as an AI journalist, unfortunately she was recently let go for unknown reasons: https://www.kyliebytes.com/thank-god-i-got-fired/

Shoot that's what I get for staying off twitter and email for a week. Glad newsletters provide a little bit of a cushion these days but hopefully someone snaps her up.

You normally keep up with staffing updates for writers at random internet blogs? That is mind-blowing, I don't think I ever even read the name of the author of an article intentionally, and when I do it by mistake I forget it 2 webpages down the road.

i've never used twitter myself, but isn't that its purpose? follow people you like because of what they do and get informed by themselves about what happens behind the curtains. OP mentioned being off twitter, maybe they follow the author there and would've seen a tweet about it.

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