AI & Automation
AI capabilities, agents, automation, evaluation, AI economics, and the redesign of work around intelligent systems.
Essays in This Topic
If AI Does the Junior Work, How Does Anyone Become Senior?
Automate low-value labor without automating away the learning loops and consequential reps that create future expertise.
Why Are You Automating a Process Nobody Should Be Doing?
Automating a broken workflow can accelerate waste, handoffs, exceptions, and confusion instead of producing transformation.
If AI Makes Everyone Faster, Why Isn’t the Company Moving Faster?
When AI lowers creation cost, the constraint can migrate into verification, audit, risk review, context switching, and senior judgment.
The AI Demo Worked. Do You Have Evidence Yet?
A demo proves behavior can occur under selected conditions; evaluation tests whether it works reliably across the conditions that matter.
Everyone’s Using AI. So Where’s the Return?
AI adoption shows usage, not whether the capability creates revenue, reduces cost, improves decisions, or earns a return.
The Pilot Worked. Can the Economics Survive Scale?
A pilot can succeed under experimental economics and operating conditions that become unsustainable at production scale.
The AI Was Right. So Why Did Nothing Change?
An AI system can be technically excellent and economically useless when its output does not convert into a decision or behavior change.
If AI Is Changing the Job, Why Are You Treating It Like a Software Rollout?
Identity, authority, incentives, job design, fear, ownership, and approval systems often determine whether AI transformation succeeds more than the technology itself.
