People instead of machines: Why AI companies hire authors

When I graduated college in 2023, English professors told me to only pursue writing when I couldn’t imagine doing anything else. You’ll be broke, eating canned tuna and writing listicles BuzzFeedI was warned. Meanwhile, just hours after graduating, the computer science students flew to San Francisco to work at Google, where they later earned more than their parents.

In other words, not long ago, code was the most powerful language in the world. Good writing – human writing, that is – was considered a relic.

But now the start-up world is here announced on X that “storytelling is becoming the most valuable skill in business” and that it “never seen before So many tech companies are trying to hire in-house writers.”