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Remove Constraints, Don't Automate Them
Ask why a process exists before you speed it up.
How it works
- 1Old processes were built for a world where knowledge was scarce.
- 2Layering AI onto them just produces faster inefficiency.
- 3Start every redesign with the question: why does this process exist?
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