The human side

A 29-year-old bright consultant walks in with a 180-day plan: AI automate these workflows, reorganize these roles. The head of internal systems (sitting on that presentation) hearing that isn’t thinking about the roadmap. He’s thinking: I still have to pay the mortgage in six months time. Call it augmentation, human-in-the-loop, operating-model redesign — the lady consultant title doesn’t matter. If your income depends on that role on that slide, uncertainty about the role is uncertainty about your life. ...

LLM and the Second-System Effect

LLM can lead to the Second-System Effect The classic Second-System Effect. Concept was articulated by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month (1975): Fred Brooks: The second system a designer builds is the most dangerous. What it means First system → constrained, pragmatic, minimal. Second system → “now we know better” → feature accumulation → abstraction layers → generalization → complexity explosion. The image captures that perfectly: Left: pipeline, bounded, coherent. Right: graph-theory nightmare. LLMs are complex and resource-heavy. Should that be avoided from the start? Let’s analyze precisely. ...