the progression you describe is IMO also the sharpest test of what your job actually is.. when you feed a recurring workflow to an agent, the parts it nails in minutes were never the work, they were just the parts that felt like work.. what is left after you harden them is the residue nobody has a template for, the judgment calls.. that residue is the whole job, and it is smaller than most of us want to admit
absolutely true. But AI is uniquely positioned to make the judgment calls — this is what's different from deterministic software from the "previous era", which instead is still best for all the scaffolding
The distinction between using AI to discover the shape of a workflow and then hardening the repeatable parts I personally think it pretty good. But maybe the question isn’t ‘how do I automate this?’ but ‘which bits actually deserve to remain flexible?
the progression you describe is IMO also the sharpest test of what your job actually is.. when you feed a recurring workflow to an agent, the parts it nails in minutes were never the work, they were just the parts that felt like work.. what is left after you harden them is the residue nobody has a template for, the judgment calls.. that residue is the whole job, and it is smaller than most of us want to admit
absolutely true. But AI is uniquely positioned to make the judgment calls — this is what's different from deterministic software from the "previous era", which instead is still best for all the scaffolding
The distinction between using AI to discover the shape of a workflow and then hardening the repeatable parts I personally think it pretty good. But maybe the question isn’t ‘how do I automate this?’ but ‘which bits actually deserve to remain flexible?