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  Put GenAI usage into someone's performance review and you'll get exactly what you asked for. Some organizations now incorporate AI usage into performance reviews. What could go wrong? One team member generates multiple new features with 1000+ line pull requests, then drowns the rest of the team in review overload. Measuring individual productivity has always been a bad idea. Measuring it in an organization using AI is worse. If GenAI is an amplifier, it amplifies both the good and the...

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  Stable teams sound like a nice-to-have until you look at the fields where an error kills someone. Most of the academic work deals with familiarity, not stability. Roughly: "we've worked together enough in the past to understand each other as individuals". Cardiac surgeons who worked across multiple hospitals but maintained stable teams had a lower rate of mortality, even with more surgeries performed. Aviation gives the same signal. 73 percent of the accidents for which informat...

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  I've talked about the importance of critical thinking, especially with respect to generative AI, before. I've linked to the Microsoft paper that shows in the presence of generative AI, our critical thinking skills tend to get worse. So I decided to take a crack at making it better. Here is the first draft of my agent thinking skills. One skills package, three skills: https://github.com/mlevison/agent-thinking-skills - Systems Thinking - Critical Thinking (new) - Critical Thinkin...