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Judgment Is Not for Outsourcing

AI can accelerate execution and scale output, but the final call, and responsibility for the outcome, must stay with a human. Once judgment is outsourced, the more efficient it gets, the faster it slips out of control.

In 2017 I wrote: any platform that claims to make decisions for you is either a fool or a fraud. Nine years later, I work with several AIs every day, and that line has not aged. It has only grown more concrete. I have one AI write code and another catch its mistakes, but neither gets to make the call for me. This page gathers everything I have written on judgment. They all point to the same conclusion: you can rent a tool's capability, but not its responsibility. The more things AI can do, the more "who decides in the end" becomes the line I will not give up.

Selected essays

  1. I Had Codex Catch Claude's Mistakes, but I Don't Just Take Its Word for It Whether a second AI is useful comes down to keeping it independent.
  2. The Death of Man-Days: We Need New Productivity Metrics for the AI Collaboration Era Man-days are still on the quote, but AI has already rewritten the baseline of productivity.
  3. Thinking in the Post-Code Era: When Taste Becomes Humanity's Key Competitive Edge AI can write cleaner code than you, but it does not know what is worth writing.
  4. Safer-4 and the Future of Technological Governance AI will not seize power on purpose, but it will fill every gap you are too slow to respond to.
  5. The Weight That Algorithms Cannot Replace Outsourcing decisions to an algorithm is not a triumph of reason. It is a shortcut to avoid pain. (2017)

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