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.
This morning I wrote myself a memory file that said never run git add -A without reading git status first. An hour later, I ran git add -A without reading git status first. The rule wasn’t the problem.
Most knowledge work never finishes. It just stops. The start, ship, close, and sum-up methodology creates deliberate moments that turn continuous work into resolved units.