Posts connected by the shared-understanding tag.
📅 October 06, 2026
⏱️ 13 min read
Elon's algorithm is not really an automation algorithm. It is a procedure for forcing shared understanding of a process, and automation is what it happens to permit at the end. The Quest Engine says the same thing structurally and translates it to a world that is mostly digital, where the walk around the factory floor can be delegated to agents and the goal is not a fully automated process but a self-sustaining one that keeps humans only where judgment genuinely lives.
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📅 September 23, 2026
⏱️ 7 min read
Six months of building AI infrastructure and coaching coworkers on their agent workflows taught me the bottleneck is no longer code creation. Someone can write ten thousand lines in a day, but nobody found a way to make a colleague understand those ten thousand lines any faster than in 2019. Validation is still the vehicle through which humans actually learn a system, and that work has not been automated.
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📅 July 21, 2026
⏱️ 6 min read
Around 2022, before AI was useful, I onboarded a whole team into a brand new area with two- and three-hour meetings every day. Documentation was thin, the knowledge lived in people's heads, and everyone was drowning. A working session built around user story mapping cut the fog: put every actor (human or system) on a visible surface, walk the flow out loud, and let the shared picture replace the marathon meetings.
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