I'm a simple person: I see new a writing model, I test that new writing model. My initial read on Echo is that it's in a similar place to ChatGPT when I was having it write sonnets about poop in late 2022: mostly cute party tricks (LLM explainer in the style of Ecclesiastes! Emily Dickinson explains the taste of coffee!), not quite ready for primetime as a model for heavy-duty writing. It struggles in similar places that models from the frontier labs struggle: continuity of ideas from point…