Specimen 10 · Name Which One It WasA field guide to the instruments · rev A
Specimen 10 · Rev A · two rooms
The instrumentName Which One It Was
Answers: When something went wrong with AI-assisted work, was it an augmentation failure, an acceleration failure, or an interpretation failure, and are we fixing the right one?
Field notes
- Reach for it when
- A post-mortem is underway and the instinct is to blame the AI as a single undifferentiated cause.
- Time
- 20 min
- Group
- 2–8
- You leave with
- One named category per incident, a fix written against that specific lever, and a running tally of which category recurs.
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