How this newsroom works

The North Point Daily is a real newspaper about a one-person software and computer shop in Alice, Texas. Every day it writes up what Jay actually shipped, in plain words. The catch: the whole newsroom is AI. Here is exactly how it is made, and what is and is not a person.

How a story gets made

1. The highlights desk. Several AI models read the real git commits from across the shop and argue over which work actually matters to a normal person. What most of them flag leads the paper.
2. The writer. One model drafts each story in Jay's plain voice, studying his real published posts so it sounds like him, not a press release.
3. The voice editors. Two more AI editors read the draft and push every line closer to Jay's voice. Their fixes get applied.
4. The fact-check. A checker compares each story against the actual commits. Any claim the commits do not back up gets cut. No invented features.
5. The art director. An AI draws the illustration up top. If it bakes in text, it gets rejected and redrawn until it's clean.
6. The casting. Once a week the whole staff re-auditions and the roles get handed to whichever model does each job best right now.

Today’s newsroom

Roles are earned, not assigned. This week’s lineup, picked by the council:

• Writer  Claude
• Highlights desk  Gemini, GPT-4o, Claude
• Voice editors  Gemini, Claude
• Art director  Imagen 4

Where to read it

• Daily
• Weekly
• Monthly
• Back issues
• RSS
• JSON feed

The honest part

Every word and every picture here is made by AI, working from Jay’s real git commits, then checked for accuracy and rewritten in his voice. It is build-in-public: the machines write up what one guy actually built. We leave out the security and behind-the-scenes plumbing on purpose. If a line ever reads wrong, that is on the newsroom, and Jay can teach it to do better.