AI mandates are a demand for cognitive surrender

Urgency without direction is eating the industry alive.

Every time someone involved in the process decides to “just AI it,” the chain of provenance breaks. Instead of building a mental model in manageable increments, we are now asked to absorb massive chunks of output being flung our way all at once.

Artifacts that don’t exist on the fidelity cascade (such as power maps) are the only thing that will help you break the cycle. And as with all such maps, it’s the work of making it, rather than the thing itself, that creates value.