I broke 37 versions to build THIS: the instant human-or-bot detector

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Hey—It's Tim. 

It’s Monday, which means Penfriend update on what we’re breaking, working on.

Spent the weekend knee-deep in a folder titled “Definitely_Final_VIBE_v37” 
(spoiler: not final)

Somewhere between version 34 and 35 the whole thing clicked, and I finally have a playground build of the VIBE score that feels…human.

How we make the mess tidy

Let’s take a look at one of the letters. Viewpoint.

1. Each letter is made up of many smaller checks

We build each letter’s score via multiple smaller checks. V (Viewpoint) has the most checks, because it turns out that having a view at all is one of the biggest markers that written content will do well.

2. The nice thing about scientific papers is they have formulas

All the 30+ papers we’re using to understand this have a system in how they check. They have to, that’s how science works.

In English, this is how the Stance component works.

And with that, we can take it and turn it into code, and then apply it to a whole article. Any article. And then score based on what their output says is most attractive to the reader.

The best part is this analysis is super fast. And, we can take articles we know have done well (Ahrefs analysis, Google Search Console, Medium upvotes etc) and check to see what metrics we’re measuring correlate the most with great content.

3. We can then give you exact feedback based on your writing

I’m still working on this system, but it looks something like this.

With a list of what has been done good, and bad, AND what we know works well in reality, we can take that list of markers, give it to an editing AI that gives you THE USER real time feedback on what is great, good, bad and hurting your content.

It’s up to you if you want to make the changes. I’d imagine we get to a point where you can let Penny make the changes for you, but for now this is the current state of the VIBE score and editor.

Wanna try it?

Reply to this email with the word “VIBE CHECK” and the article you want checked and I’ll send you back the output.

A version for beta testers will be available this week for testing. But for now, you gotta go through me :D

See you tomorrow.

✌️ Tim "The VIBE is goooooooooooood" Hanson
CMO @Penfriend.ai

Same brain, different platforms: X, Threads, LinkedIn.

P.S. I’m wondering what easter eggs we should put in the vibe check…. any ideas?

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