#work
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Only One of Us Can Be Used Up
A machine cannot burn out. The pair can, and the line to watch is review capacity. Four agents give you four times the unverified work, arriving fastest at the hour the reviewer is worst.
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Buying AI, but Not the Manager
A VP asked what the ROI was on all the tech we had bought. Four weeks later the database was firing one event a day. Companies buy the AI and skip the manager who was supposed to carry it across, and what that person actually supplies is not AI expertise but cover: making it survivable to be visibly bad at something new.
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Queryable vs Quotable *
Friends on a terrace revealed three different kinds of edge AI hasn't crossed yet — untransferred knowledge, unreachable knowledge, and knowledge that lives in the empty space. Then the AI spoke.
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My API, Not My Resume
Professional identity is changing. The competitive unit is now the human plus their AI team. Most employment contracts don't know this yet.