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AI wants a job. Someone has to define it. Field notes, mental models, and frameworks for practitioners operationalizing AI while the playbook is still being written.
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Don’t Use AI To Make It Easier to Read (opens the original)
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They admitted her. I think I’m going to take the rest of the day off.My 14 year old dog is sick, and we can’t figure out why. I kept her awake while driving to the wrong emergency vet because I thought she was dying, then spent three hours for them to slightly help her and admit they didn’t know what was wrong.Today, she’s been admitted under the care of my normal vet, the one who did that first puppy check-up and told me it’s normal for most puppies to have worms. I’ve learned a lot more since
AI Doesn’t Need to Improve Judgment to Improve the Workflow (opens the original)
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I spend a lot of time helping product teams use MCPs.So it was slightly uncomfortable to realize that I was the person arguing against using one.We already had a workflow pulling roadmap data from Airtable into an HTML view. Someone suggested using the Google Slides MCP to put the same information into the PMO’s standard template.I pushed back.The HTML was working like Spanx for the data. It constrained everything into a consistent shape. I had used HTML for pages and email before, but never for
AI Productivity Fails in Three Places (opens the original)
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You start typing. AI is just about to take on some real work for you.Everyone is saying productivity gains are elusive, but you know exactly what you want AI to do for you today and maybe again and again, if you can get it right.The first prompt returns something pretty close. You correct it. Next response looks better, but now another issue has appeared.Before you know it, the thing you wanted AI to do for you isn’t done, and you couldn’t done it twice in the time you took to see if it could do
AI Paths Through Enterprise AI (opens the original)
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;From Robert Frost, The Road Not TakenThis past week, Robert Frost’s words have been on my mind during a particularly interesting moment in AI Transformation: curating a path that people want to choose.What needs to be on that path? Who needs to walk before them? Who will they want to bring with them?A poet wan
Build AI That Doesn’t Die (opens the original)
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Someone asks if AI could do it. Suddenly, several people are vibe coding, Slacks are flying, and no one is talking to an end user.Meetings get in the way. The pack of vibe coders decreases, then one person quits altogether because the LLM they’re using has over-complicated the solution or worse yet, they hit their token limit and had to time-out.Building got easier, but did we get better at product thinking and development? Where is the starting line for the AI building race? We all seem pretty
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