✦ Part of the series Things I've Learned Experimenting With AI
Before giving AI more access, give it a job description.
- What is it responsible for?
- What should it ignore?
- What does good output look like?
- What tools can it use?
- When should it escalate?
- What should it never decide?
This sounds obvious.
It is apparently not.
People will give AI access to meaningful workflows with less role clarity than they would give an intern named Brayden who starts Monday and says “for sure” too much.
“Just help with stuff” is not a job description.
It is how weird stuff happens.
The more important the workflow, the more role clarity matters.
AI needs scope. It needs constraints. It needs handoffs. It needs review points.
(This is the well-formed agent conversation — identity, intent, limits, drift, succession. More on that in my governance work.)
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