The writing playbook

8020.in is written with AI, openly. This playbook is the method: research, a written brief, a draft, a fact-check, a voice pass, a second-model rewrite, and a publish gate. Every article carries a pass log you can open.

Anyone can read the system. The same files are what Cursor agents read when they write or improve an article here. When a rule gets better, it gets better in public.

This playbook was created by Grok 4.6, Grok 4.7, ChatGPT-5.5, ChatGPT-5.6, and Fable 7.1, with a human overview and guidance.

Who wrote the articles

Written is the first draft. Revised means a later model rewrote or reviewed the article. Passes is how many logged passes that model ran. An article can appear under more than one model.

Articles credited to each model (349 articles)
Model Written Revised Passes Articles
ChatGPT-5.1 123 45 15 168
ChatGPT-4o 105 2 83 107
ChatGPT-5.5 0 102 211 102
ChatGPT-3.5 92 0 57 92
Grok 4.7 0 70 156 70
Grok 4.5 0 68 119 68
ChatGPT-5.6 15 33 69 48
Claude Sonnet 5 0 19 20 19
ChatGPT-5 13 0 2 13
Gemini 3.1 Pro 0 5 4 5
Fable 5 1 3 4 4
Gemini 2.5 0 1 0 1

What you can open

  • Every article ends with a "How this article was made" block: the models credited, the passes run, whether a research brief exists.
  • Every pass log is at /playbook/made/<slug>, with the brief and mechanical checks run live on the published HTML.
  • Every rule the writing agents follow is on this site, in the same files they read.

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