𝗜 𝗦𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝟰𝟬 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗜𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗵𝗼'𝘀 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲

Two executives argued if AI is a colleague or a tool. The label does not matter. What matters is how you manage your backlog.

I used to ask who is free. I treated AI as another name on the list. This failed. AI took tasks it should not have. I spent half a day fixing errors.

Now I sort by shape.

I treat agent tasks like a contract. I define the input. I define the output. I define the gate to check the work.

If I am unable to define the gate, a human does the work.

I tested this on 40 items. I found two things.

First, I held onto tasks because of ego. I thought they were too critical to automate. They were just defined tasks. AI did them fine.

Second, trust is a risk. When you treat AI like a teammate, you stop checking the work. You start rubber-stamping results. Tools do not earn trust. Work earns trust.

The human job has changed. You do not just write prompts. You design the work. You manage the failures.

Do you plan by who is free? Or do you sort by shape?

Source: https://dev.to/itskondrat/i-sorted-40-backlog-items-by-shape-instead-of-whos-free-heres-what-broke-4h0a Optional learning community: https://t.me/GyaanSetuAi