# A council of Claudes for quality review

2026-11-10 · Joakim Jardenberg. English translation by AI. Original wording preserved. Titles and image descriptions added by AI. Editorial connections: AI + JJ.

The English passage summarises Kevin Roose’s account in Natalia Quintero’s interview for The Every Podcast. Roose describes his chapter review process in the section beginning at 23:24. The original LinkedIn post includes the accompanying AI-labelled screenshot.

Folks. Kevin Roose has written a really, really good book about AI. With the help of AI, of course. The excerpt below is from an interview by Natalia Quintero.

The point is probably obvious. I dug this out now because I’m working with a group of quality managers today. Do you see the connection?

Roose said he built a “council of Claudes” to review each chapter after he finished drafting it. The system used multiple agents, each assigned a different role:

• An AI skeptic challenged whether the claims about language models were credible.
• An AI historian checked technical details and the historical precursors to the systems he described.
• A Walter Isaacson–style editor evaluated the chapter’s flow, structure, pacing, and readability.
• A master editor agent synthesized the different reviews into one report for Roose. 

The agents caught several factual errors that Roose - and even his human editors - had missed. He viewed this as evidence that AI systems had improved: whereas journalists previously had to fact-check AI outputs, he now had AI fact-checking his own work. 

(The book is called “The AGI Chronicles” and came out a month ago. If you haven’t read it, or listened to it like I did, you absolutely should. Incredibly thorough and impressive. You don’t often get to read a history book about an era while you’re still right in the middle of it. AI time moves even faster than internet time. So hurry up and read it, and then let’s talk.)

[Read Natalia Quintero’s interview with Kevin Roose (chapter review at 23:24)](https://every.to/podcast/transcript-the-inside-story-of-the-150-people-who-built-modern-ai)

[Original LinkedIn post](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7525802127038808065/)

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[Writing is a craft. Thinking is something else.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/writing-is-a-craft-thinking-is-something-else)

Another part of the writing process: using AI to put an idea into words before anyone reviews the draft.

## Original wording

Hörni. Kevin Roose har skrivit en riktigt riktigt bra bok om AI. Med hjälp av AI, så klart. Utdraget nedan är ut en intervju av Natalia Quintero. 

Poängen är nog självklar - och att jag grävde fram den nu beror på att jag ska jobba med ett gäng kvalitetschefer idag. Ser du kopplingen?

Roose said he built a “council of Claudes” to review each chapter after he finished drafting it. The system used multiple agents, each assigned a different role:

• An AI skeptic challenged whether the claims about language models were credible.
• An AI historian checked technical details and the historical precursors to the systems he described.
• A Walter Isaacson–style editor evaluated the chapter’s flow, structure, pacing, and readability.
• A master editor agent synthesized the different reviews into one report for Roose. 

The agents caught several factual errors that Roose - and even his human editors - had missed. He viewed this as evidence that AI systems had improved: whereas journalists previously had to fact-check AI outputs, he now had AI fact-checking his own work. 

(Boken heter "The AGI Chronicles" och kom ut för en månad sedan. Har du inte läst (eller som jag, lyssnat på den) så bör du absolut göra det. Otroligt gedigen, och imponerande. Det är nog inte ofta man får läsa en historiebok om en epok, medan man fortfarande befinner sig mitt i den. AI-tid rullar till och med snabbare än internet-tid. Så skynda dig att läsa, så snackar vi sedan. )

Source: https://jardenberg.com/notes/a-council-of-claudes

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