Practical notes on AI in the workplace, written from the training room, not from a press release.
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Seventeen agent frameworks, ranked by what survives production rather than by GitHub stars. Some of the most popular names sit in the bottom tier, and one of them is a security incident waiting to happen.
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The question as usually asked is the wrong one, which is why every answer to it is poor. A job is not an automatable unit. Tasks are.
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Entries, reconciliation, transcription: all heading for automation. But signing a tax return is accountability, and accountability does not automate.
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I earn my living from training, so it is in my interest to say no. But I can see what is happening in my own work, and here is how I came to this view.
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Execution got cheap. Taste did not. The problem is that many designers were selling execution while believing they were selling taste.
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The paradox that settles most of this: programmers are the biggest buyers of these tools. People who enthusiastically buy the weapon of their own replacement know something the worried do not.
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Reading a scan is a task that automates. Telling a family bad news, or persuading a patient to stay on a treatment, is a different profession entirely.
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Machine translation into Arabic is now good enough to fool you, which is the most dangerous stage there is. An obvious error gets fixed; an elegant one gets published.
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I was a journalist before any of this. And what I know is that writing was never the hard part of journalism.
Fifteen minutes to understand what your team does and what you want to change. If training is not the right answer, I will say so.
Nomad
Nomad answers from this site only, and will say so when it does not know.