Bifalgorithm post

Here's a frame I keep coming back to. If someone can give you a set of instructions to do a task, eventually that task gets automated. And the work that survives is the work that requires judgement, like reading a situation, making a call, nobody taught you to make, or something that isn't obvious. And the trap is that judgement work doesn't feel productive in the moment. It's slow, it's ambiguous, it doesn't clear an inbox. So the day fills up with the pattern work, the emails, the reports, the follow-ups, because finishing those feels like progress. And the actual judgement call gets whatever's left over, which is usually not much. So the shift is simple, in principle. Give the pattern work to Claude and keep the judgement to yourself. Hard in practice because the pattern work is what makes you feel busy. And busy feels like it's a job, but it's not.

Here's a frame I keep coming back to. If someone can give you a set of instructions to do a task, eventually that task gets automated. And the work that surviv…