Tagged decision-making
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What Should Never Be An Agent: Use The Benchmark Gap As Your Decision Criterion
Published benchmarks of agents on realistic computer-use tasks report completion rates in the low tens of per cent, while humans on the same tasks sit near ceiling. That gap is not a reason to avoid agents. It is the input to a decision procedure: a low success rate is fine when checking the answer is cheaper than producing it, and unacceptable when the action is irreversible or verification costs more than doing the work yourself.
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You Are Buying Verdicts, Not Prototypes: Price The Decision, Not The Build
When a team buys rapid prototyping, the thing they actually need is a decision: build this or do not. The cost of a wrong keep, carrying a bad idea into a full build, exceeds the cost of the prototype by a large multiple. That makes the prototype instrumentation for a verdict rather than a deliverable in itself, and it changes how the engagement should be scoped, priced and ended.