Keep a manual spine. Automate limbs, not judgment.
Own the call. Delegation isn’t abdication.
Earn the question. State it, constrain it, name what changes your mind.
Do the first 15%. Frame, bound, estimate, sketch the system…then prompt.
Match tool to risk. Brainstorming can hallucinate; decisions can’t. Testable beats believable.
Never trust smoothness. Coherence ≠ correctness.
Triangulate + touch primary. One source is a story; originals keep you honest.
Preserve the struggle. Offloading difficulty offloads learning—choose your easy.
Do the last 15%. Verify, test when it matters, check counterfactuals, log bets.
Protect the boundary + stay trainable. No sensitive data in unapproved tools; calibrate to avoid quiet atrophy.
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Manual spine, not autopilot: frame the question, do the first 15%, match tool to risk. Never trust smoothness—triangulate + read the primary. Preserve some struggle. Do the last 15%: verify, test, log bets. Own the call. Stay trainable.