Many Hands Make Heavy Work Parkinson said work expands to fill the time available. It also expands to fill the people available, and then it stops. On the law of many hands: why tasks keep gaining collaborators past the point where the next one helps, why the stall is structural enough to appear in AI agent teams with no psychology at all, and why the fix is to price the addition. With an audiobook. https://aguilar-pelaez.co.uk/many-hands-make-heavy-work.html #work #rss #feeds #linksharing #qwibbit

The Checking Threshold DeepMind argues that coordination, not competence, decides when AI transforms the economy. A reply: coordination bundles transmission, which copying a model makes nearly perfect, with correction, which copying makes weak for the honest mistakes a model finds reasonable. On the largest observed agent swarm, DeepMind's own whistleblower experiment, why the threshold will be crossed first where handoffs can be machine-checked, and three predictions. With an audiobook. https://aguilar-pelaez.co.uk/the-checking-threshold.html #threshold #deepmind #rss #feeds #linksharing #qwibbit

Refactor the Workflow, Not the Worker The unit of AI redesign is the dependency structure of a workflow, not the job or the task. Questions can move upstream; approvals cannot merge. Ford's invoiceless accounts payable, a Lean model in which a careless observation makes the dangerous redesign provably equivalent, why an AI belongs at the front asking questions rather than in the middle approving, and three falsifiable predictions. With an audiobook. https://aguilar-pelaez.co.uk/refactor-the-workflow-not-the-worker.html #workflow #worker #questions #lean #ford #rss #feeds #linksharing #qwibbit

Who Gets to Write the Specification? Once a specification can be executed, writing it is an exercise of power. Correctness, validity and authority are different properties, and verification supplies only the first and at best the second. Robodebt, the 2020 A-level grades and Colorado's benefits system, a Lean example in which the kernel states exactly where three teams' rules disagree but cannot say which is right, Hart's secondary rules for executable policy, and three falsifiable predictions. With an audiobook. https://aguilar-pelaez.co.uk/who-gets-to-write-the-specification.html #gets #hart #lean #correctness #robodebt #rss #feeds #linksharing #qwibbit

Systemic Coping Syndrome An organisation can become better at accommodating its dysfunction than correcting it. Why the people who would gain most from AI are often the least placed to act on it, why what such organisations lose is the capacity to compound, and how AI can make coping cheaper instead of ending it. With an audiobook. https://aguilar-pelaez.co.uk/systemic-coping-syndrome.html #coping #rss #feeds #linksharing #qwibbit