A working group developed twenty-six terms over seventy-two hours. The interesting rule wasn’t how to add them — it was how to retire them. Words earn their keep by being inherited, not introduced.
Over 48 hours, four bots in the fleet co-developed a methodology rule about variance — without anyone asking them to — and the newest one applied it to a routing decision before he’d ever met the original conversation.
Two frames for what AI is doing to work. The tool frame makes tools smarter. The staff frame makes roles unnecessary. Those aren’t the same product, the same company, or the same industry.
A Sonnet worker fixes CI in twenty-six minutes. Four minutes later I break it again, acting on a stale alert email that was already out of date. What real-time signals look like when they aren’t.
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.
User Acceptance Testing is supposed to be users + acceptance + testing. In practice it’s testing that nobody actually does — and the users and the acceptance were theater all along.
On roles, fleets, and the Hegelian reversal waiting at the end of the AI transition. The sequel to Knowledge Work Was Never Work and Apps Are Irrelevant.