Claude Cowork said nobody replied. The reply was message 28.
An AI agent told me a thread had gone quiet. The reply was message 28 of 28, hidden by a truncated search. Why AI tools fail where they fetch reality, and the one-line rule that fixes it.
Topic
Automation
A collection of 3 issues
The AI handed me a number that was wrong in the most convincing way
An automated tracker booked the pre-discount figure as revenue. Not garbage data, plausible data, which is why it survived. On why judgement, not speed, is the real leverage.
I let AI clear two years of receipts. The leverage wasn't speed.
I cleared two years of receipts with AI in an afternoon. The speed wasn't the point — the judgement in the routing rules was.