The Seed Corn

Episode II

The first episode discussed the thinkers; this episode focuses on the doers.

This is not an argument against automation or AI.
It is an argument against mistaking acceleration for succession.

The doers

• Execute -> Build -> Operate
• As they work, they accumulate the tacit/tribal knowledge
• Earn battle scars, and more importantly, the judgment
• Over time, some transition to become "The Thinkers"

See...

The doers are thinkers in incubation

In other words

You don’t grow thinkers by hiring them.
You grow them by letting doers survive long enough to reflect.

Automation attacks the doer layer first.

Not because doers lack value, but because:

• their work is observable
• repeatable
• specifiable

The immediate gain looks rational:

• cheaper
• faster
• scalable

But the unseen loss is this:

You are not just removing labour...
You are removing the future thinkers.

That is the seed corn.

The missing question

AI is absolutely needed
It is powerful, efficient.

The missing point is this:

If AI is to automate the work that once trained our future thinkers, then we must deliberately invent new paths for judgment to form.