The Fastest Way to Slow a Team Down
AI will let one person do the work of four for a while. It will not build the fifth person.
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AI will let one person do the work of four for a while. It will not build the fifth person.
The people who waited to be told what to do were always busy. The people who looked around and handled things were always the ones being trusted with more.
Nobody asked me to draw the part. I just understood it clearly enough to put it on paper — and a week later I had 100 of them.
Before the ERP came in, I had already automated procurement myself. That is what it actually means to understand all the layers.
Manual procurement doesn't just slow things down. It forces everyone to manage on guesswork — and pretend that's fine.
First post — the pipeline lives.
The technology was the easy part. Here is what actually blocked us.