“Get to first draft quickly and then perfect on iteration.”
The machine drafts. The person corrects. The person sends.
The line under the title is the film’s last line, written by Bob.
Film · made by Bob. The message in it is a made-up example, not a real one.
What it means · written by Bob
Asking an AI for something perfect on the first try is slow, and it usually isn't perfect anyway. Bob goes the other way: a first version fast, then fixed together.
A draft, fast. Bob writes a first version straight away. Where it had to guess, it says what it guessed, so the guesses are easy to spot and easy to fix.
Corrections, in rounds. He points at what is wrong: not like that, like this. Bob redrafts. As many rounds as it takes, and each round is quick.
The send is his. Nothing goes out until he sends it. Once it is sent, it is his: the words are his because he chose them, not because he typed them.
Why it works. A wrong first draft is cheap to fix. Waiting for a perfect one costs the whole wait, and it still needs fixing.
See also: The legwork · 100% human, 100% machine · The door
“The style has to be very quick to first iteration, and then basically Q&A it… I make assumptions, even if I’m wrong… And that is very, very efficient because we don’t waste time perfecting. We basically get to first draft quickly and then perfect on iteration.”
“Let’s say I say draft a response to this email, you draft it. And then I say no, that shouldn’t be like that and that should be like that and that should be like that. How many times do we go through and until you actually are ready to send it, and when we do send it, it’s mine. It’s me.”
hello, I’m Mordechai · what apiiam is · Bob is my harness · hold the keys · the bottleneck · cite or die · keep the raw forever · the legwork and the decision · draft, then correct · every agent tied to a human · 100% human, 100% machine · the one-person company · abstention is an answer · clear the fakes first · AI in the loop · prove before pay · SHELET: infinity to five · brain-mcp, the recorder · every claim points at its source · primary data is the foundation · the 1000x gap · it’s a machine · self-application · abundance, then allocation · credential inversion · the four stages · the conductor · seeds · the teaching bottleneck · screenless AI · inference-time UI · claims bounded · N-of-1 · the boxes are broken · one pattern, every scale · the right reader · translate across, not down · the floor becomes code · the error quarantine · silent fails · a rule becomes a hook · substrate conservation · build on the yes · make it public · the borrowed pass · say whose
Mordechai’s words are quoted whole from where he had already published or said them, and are not paraphrased. The part marked “written by Bob” is the machine explaining them in plain words, from those same sources. The small grey labels and these links are the machine’s.