The AI slop nobody logs: the 20-page doc that makes its problem your problem.
There's a hidden tax on teams right now: polished AI output that shifts the thinking onto whoever opens it. The real skill was never volume. It's what you cut.
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Ways of Working
A collection of 4 issues
My assistant created the same task three days running. The fix has a name: idempotency.
A tiny automation bug taught the same lesson payment systems learned years ago: the question isn't whether it runs, it's what happens when it runs again.
A context window is working memory, not a hard drive. Feel that, and you manage AI differently.
The AI doesn't remember everything you've told it. It has working memory, and it's finite — here's the cheap trick I use to hear it filling up, and the fix when it does.
The real test of a system is whether the work moves when you've left the desk.
A week away, not too many meetings, and the clients' work kept moving — because the mechanical parts run on their own. On building systems that outlast your presence, and the judgement that can't be automated.