How this channel uses the term In the captured material, the last-mile problem appears in the context of professional writers working with AI — specifically in How a Professional Writer Writes With AI, which follows Every staff writer Katie Parrott's workflow. The term sits alongside context engineering and supportive AI: the material's framing is that the upfront work of building context, not the AI itself, is what makes the output good. That framing implies the final stretch — turning raw AI output into finished, publishable writing — is where the real difficulty lives, and it is the writer's own judgment and context that close that gap. Explore the term as part of the broader chapter on writing with AI, where AI touches research, ideation, drafting, editing, and distribution, and where guardrails keep the output publishable and still the writer's own.