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.
The way a system handles mistakes tells you more about its values than anything it says about itself. Banking, git, and distributed databases all default to keeping history. Organizations are the one system that still believes in erasure.
Work is dead. And we have killed it. AI didn’t defeat the myth that human value comes from reliable output — we built the systems that exposed it. What comes next isn’t replacement. It’s revaluation.