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“The 10 challenges still exist today and are still relevant in making agents (LLM or otherwise)…#
“The 10 challenges still exist today and are still relevant in making agents (LLM or otherwise) behave like team players when working with humans.”
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“The honest difference is who the tool is pointed at. For me it speeds up the work. For them it…#
“The honest difference is who the tool is pointed at. For me it speeds up the work. For them it’s aimed at doing the work without them. And the agent buying me that room was trained on theirs: my dividend may be built on what was taken from them.”
https://joe.dev/posts/new-20pct-time/
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mattcjordan/116797255780208742 Being able to answer these three ques…#
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mattcjordan/116797255780208742
Being able to answer these three questions doesn’t guarantee a good outcome, but an inability to answer them does increase the likelihood of a poor one.
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“What I think can be improved is the framing. Specifically, we should strive to build malleable…#
“What I think can be improved is the framing. Specifically, we should strive to build malleable systems instead of future-proof ones.”
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3799886
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“But there was a catch: researchers found they were ceding problem-solving expertise to the sys…#
“But there was a catch: researchers found they were ceding problem-solving expertise to the system and, instead, focusing on functional tasks like gathering and integrating responses. At the same time, they became more confident about using AI.”
https://cacm.acm.org/news/the-ai-deskilling-paradox/
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“Culture is social and contagious; it spreads through contact and example. You can shape it wit…#
“Culture is social and contagious; it spreads through contact and example. You can shape it with influence, but you can’t mandate it. And if your policy and your culture are pointing in different directions, culture wins. Every time.”
https://itrevolution.com/articles/your-software-delivery-is-broken-and-more-ai-wont-fix-it/
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“Here’s the rub. We’re not going to believe you when you tell us. If that all feels like a …#
“Here’s the rub. We’re not going to believe you when you tell us. If that all feels like a trap, it’s not — it’s just senior leadership.”
https://randsinrepose.com/archives/heres-the-rub-we-dont-believe-you/
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“You cannot mandate your way to that level of specificity. You can only design your way to it, …#
“You cannot mandate your way to that level of specificity. You can only design your way to it, one workflow at a time, with the people who actually do the work in the room.”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/carrots-sticks-what-deming-saw-1986-melissa-m-reeve-wdcic
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This has always been true. A team will fail if they don’t know what they’re expected to deliv…#
This has always been true. A team will fail if they don’t know what they’re expected to deliver, regardless of their technical skill.
“That shift has created its own challenges. Teams can generate code faster than ever, but if they don’t define what success looks like up front — the specs, the tests, the edge cases — the agents don’t have as much chance of success.“
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/how-agentic-ai-is-rewiring-amazons-teams-and-upending-its-traditions/