Evidence Over Attestation
“The decisive skill was not being the foremost expert in any one of them. It was knowing precisely which hat the next hour required.”
Knowing which role the hour requires is the executive skill that replaces departmental specialization when one person directs many agents.
More lines from the same part
- “If a system requires the person to adapt to the machine's idiosyncrasies, the architecture has failed, however elegant it is inside.”
- “A lazy question multiplied across ten autonomous sessions yields ten confident wrong answers, delivered to customers at machine speed.”
- “Real innovation is the deliberate constraint that makes machine speed trustworthy for a customer who will never read the code.”
- “Excellence with agents is not a talent and not a toolset. It is a syllabus of twelve disciplines that a CEO can name, hire for, and inspect.”