A Second Model Doesn't Guarantee Independence
Same incomplete context. Same mistaken assumption. What makes the evaluation independent?
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Permission to Investigate Isn't Permission to Act
Permission to investigate is not permission to act. Authority needs to follow the action.
Read field note →Severity Isn't the Whole Business Story
Same database delay. Different business consequence. Context changes the decision.
Read field note →The Dashboard Is Losing Its Monopoly
Agents are consuming operational knowledge. We also need to observe their decisions.
Read field note →The Agent Finished. Did the Business Recover?
A tool returning success does not establish the business outcome. What would you verify?
Read field note →Who Is Watching the Agents? Why Finishing Isn't the Same as Success
The agent finished. Did the business recover? This Field Note explores why observability becomes a condition for delegation.
Read field note →The Dashboard Is Losing Its Monopoly
The dashboard is not disappearing. It is losing its monopoly on how we access operational knowledge. When the consumer of that knowledge can also change the environment, we need to observe its decisions as well as the system.
Read field note →Who Is Watching the Agents?
The more authority we give AI agents, the better our evidence needs to be about what they actually accomplished.
Read field note →Maybe One AI Shouldn't Do Everything (Video)
maybe the future is not one incredibly smart AI doing everything. It may be a set of bounded agents with different authority and clear handoffs.
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