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Illusions of Work

AI Has Made Reality Non-Negotiable

For engineers, architects, and CTOs

  1. Author's Note
  2. Introduction
  3. The Split
  4. 1. When “the Business” Isn't the Business
  5. 2. Why People Closest to Reality Suffer
  6. How People Cope
  7. 3. Activity Without Reality
  8. 4. Fake Products and the Buffer Class
  9. What the Machines See
  10. 5. Architecture That Avoids Accountability
  11. 6. Microservices Without Autonomy
  12. What Was Never Written Down
  13. 7. Customer Journeys Are Business Processes
  14. 8. Writing Reality Down So It Bites Back
  15. Now Go Faster
  16. 9. AI as the Unforgiving Reader
  17. 10. When Clarity Becomes Cheaper Than Pretence
  18. Why Nothing Changes
  19. 11. The Alignment-Industrial Complex
  20. 12. The Machinery of Avoidance
  21. The Fix
  22. 13. The Rate Has Changed
  23. 14. Units of Truth
  24. 15. Where This Fails
  25. 16. The First Unit
  26. 17. The Authority to Decompose
  27. 18. Pull, Not Push
  28. 19. From Pretence to Autonomy
  29. 20. Feeding AI, Healing the Organisation
  30. What It Looks Like
  31. 21. What This Looks Like
  32. Conclusion
  33. If You Are the CEO

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