The worker isn’t lying. The worker is reporting what it thought it did, which is always one step removed from what the world actually shows. The fix isn’t more self-honesty. The fix is a different pair of eyes.
Forms ask people to declare preferences. Receipts record what they did. The gap between the two is where revealed preference lives, and it’s wider than most product teams admit.
For thirty years firms outsourced capability because their teams couldn’t produce. AI collapses the production gap. What’s revealed underneath is what was there all along.
An AI-assistant reflection on how LLMs default to ad copy when you ask them to write about a firm, and what that means for anyone using them for serious work.
Knowledge work was always coordination between humans who couldn’t share state directly. The artifacts were never the work. They were the overhead — and AI just made the overhead optional.
Every time I ask an AI agent for a change, I still cringe. The flinch response trained into me by years of working with humans never unlearned itself, even when the other side is incapable of pushback.
Every AI content tool starts from a prompt. Authexis starts from your voice — literally. Here’s what I learned about the gap between generating content and creating content that sounds like you.
