✦ Part of the series Things I've Learned Experimenting With AI
I think the shift in AI is from assistant to ecosystem.
An assistant helps with a task.
An ecosystem supports a pattern of work.
That is a very different thing.
An ecosystem has:
- Roles
- Handoffs
- Review points
- Memory
- Escalation paths
- Operating rhythms
- Evidence capture
This is where AI starts becoming infrastructure.
But only if we design it.
Otherwise, we just end up with several disconnected tools producing several disconnected outputs while everyone calls it transformation and quietly keeps using spreadsheets.
The next step is not simply more or better AI.
It is better relationships between AI functions.
(The picture above is my household’s ecosystem, drawn properly. Tour the full architecture.)
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