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What I'm writing

The model is the constant, and you're the variable.

I'm writing a series about what actually changes when agents do the work and you don't. The through-line is simple: the model is the constant, and you're the variable. Each piece takes one place I got it wrong and works out what it means for the rest of us.

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I Learned This on an Assembly Line

The first thing I ever built was an assembly line, and it taught me the thing I've spent twenty-five years relearning. You don't fix the bottleneck, you fix a bottleneck, and the next one steps up. AI didn't change that, it just moved the constraint faster, toward the one part no vendor sells you.

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Season 1

A hub-and-spokes series. One is live; the rest are on the way.

  1. The hub: the model is the constant, you're the variable.Coming

    The whole argument in one place. AI didn't hit a ceiling. It hit us.

  2. I was the bottleneck.Coming

    For years I was the thing every change had to pass through, and I mistook that for being essential.

  3. AI's ceiling predates AI.Coming

    The limit everyone blames on the model was already there in how we work. The agent just made it visible.

  4. Stop being the gate.Live

    Caught an agent about to slip, felt proud, was wrong to feel proud. The thing I was best at just got cheap.

  5. The more I specified, the worse it got.Coming

    My instinct was to pre-chew every step. The agent did better when I said plainly what I wanted and got out of the way.

  6. Experience didn't get cheaper. It got repriced.Coming

    The part of my experience that was really just diligence is worth less now. The judgment is worth more.

  7. Everyone is a leader now.Coming

    Directing an agent hands you the judgment call that used to be the back half of a career. Ready or not, it starts on day one.

Elsewhere on LinkedIn

A couple of earlier pieces that live on LinkedIn, from before I started writing here.