Essays on production intelligence, operational drift, and the future of physical operations.
Written by John Corser, CPO and Co-Founder of filmIQ. Published on Substack.
What Happens When AI Comes for the Knowledge Work That Holds Physical Operations Together?
A response to Matt Shumer's "Something Big Is Happening," from someone building AI in an industry where the cognitive work can't be separated from the physical. Shumer's essay argues that AI is about to transform every category of knowledge work. This response takes the argument seriously and asks what happens when the knowledge work in question isn't contained inside a screen.
Read on Substack →What the AI Industry Learned About Drift, and Why Physical Operations Need Something Harder.
The enterprise world solved the easy version of a problem every complex physical operation faces. Here is what the hard version requires. AI teams have spent the last few years building audit loops and shadow-mode testing. Physical operations have the same failure mode, without the clean baselines or tight feedback loops.
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