The Generalist’s Bargain: Further Ironies, Part I
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy,…
Artificial Intelligence
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It Is Always the Time for Vision
Why vision matters now. Recently someone said to me, “Now is not the time for vision.” This statement gets the relationship between uncertainty and vision backwards.…
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Everyone Hit Their Numbers. The System Didn’t Move.
The night before the on-site, six of us went to dinner. Forty people were flying in the next morning to spend two days working on one…
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Principles of Anchor Engineering
Building software at agent speed with human judgement I have often seen one engineer get much faster with AI coding agents; then adding a second engineer…
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Nobody Asks the Hard Question Anymore
The AI builder/non-builder split is a measurement failure, and there’s data Somewhere in the last two years, a line got drawn down the middle of the…
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Move Fast and Break Accountability
The further you are from the outcomes of a decision, the easier it is to make a bad call. It’s a natural consequence of large systems…