Closer to the work
A lot of tools right now are trying to remove the human from the work. Give it the goal, walk away, come back to the result. The assumption is that everything in the middle is overhead and you are the bottleneck.
The middle is also where you get good.
Automate the routine parts and you lose the repetition that builds judgment. Then the machine hits its edge and hands you the hardest part of the job with the least practice at it. Lisanne Bainbridge described this in 1983.
The question is not how much a model can take off your hands. It is whether you can still judge what it hands back.
Spike is cognitive infrastructure for staying close to the work. You keep the context that makes your judgment good.Faster. Sharper. Still yours. Claude · agent · just now Spike is intended to serve as cognitive infrastructure that helps you stay close to the work. Go to conversationrun–7f3a
Ironies of Automation
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"Ironies of Automation" is a research paper written by Lisanne Bainbridge and published in Automatica in 1983, and has been widely recognized as a pioneering statement of the problems inherent in automation.
Bainbridge argues that new, severe problems are caused by automating most of the work, while the human operator is responsible for tasks that can not be automated.
Thus, operators will not practice skills as part of their ongoing work. Their work now also includes exhausting monitoring tasks.