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Beyond Automating Bottlenecks
Why the next big win is not just faster workflow, but better work selection
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Building a Better Human-Bot Collaboration Environment in Obsidian
What it took to turn scattered notes, an AI agent, and a shifting workspace into a collaboration that actually got better over time.
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Learning From the Illusion of Knowing
A convincing response can still be a useful object of investigation.
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The AI Could Keep Fixing Things. We Had to Decide When to Stop.
A PDF investigation shows how sensible suggestions from an AI agent can add up to unplanned work—and why deciding what is enough takes human attention.
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The Context Between the Clicks
AI agents use interfaces designed for people who bring context and learn through experience. What happens when they arrive without either?
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What If We Can't Keep Up?
Chicago's Deep Tunnel offers lessons for investing in AI defense, finding bottlenecks, and adjusting when future demands exceed our plans.
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What Kind of Fires Does AI Start?
Alex Cannella applies familiar problem-solving methods to active AI incidents, smoldering problems, and conditions that could fuel future failures.
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Can an AI Stop Before It Guesses—and Keep Working?
A retrospective lab notebook tracing experiments, measurement mistakes, and imperfect results when an AI must pause an unsupported action while continuing useful research.
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Digital Pair Therapy
Use disagreement with a coding agent to uncover missing context, preserve decisions, and improve how you work together.
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Feelings, Evidence and Constraints in AI Collaboration
Separate feelings, evidence, constraints, and assumptions when working with AI, while keeping research findings and practical hypotheses distinct.
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The Discovery That Never Happened
How unspoken questions and missing dissent can prevent ideas from meeting—and what organizations can do to protect discovery.