The coming knowledge-work supply-chain crisis

Remember the first time an autocomplete suggestion nailed exactly what you meant to type? Multiply that by a thousand and aim it at every task you once called “work.” AI is scaling the creation side of knowledge work at an exponential rate, but our decision-making tools and rituals remain stuck in the past. The imbalance creates bottlenecks in everything from code reviews to roadmapping and everything in between. Before we drown in our own todo queues, we need to rethink the entire production-to-judgment pipeline. AI Accelerates Production, Not Judgement Over the past few months, I’ve shared various experiments where AI dramatically accelerates production tasks: There’s one common theme here: AI excels at production but always ends up with humans as a critical bottleneck dealing with a mountain of tasks to evaluate, approve, or modify what it creates. Meaning-Making: Where the Human Bottleneck Begins This pile of tasks is how I understand what Vaughn Tan refers to as Meaningmaking ... Read full article.