PART 2 · CHAPTER 11 · What Being Early Changes

Building With Agents

The unit of work is no longer the task. It is the delegated, supervised, self-correcting agent.

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WHAT THIS PAGE CONTAINS

A title, the published opening thesis and the chapter's section headings. The argument, evidence, examples and full prose remain in the book.

The chapter's route

  1. 01From Prompting To Delegation
  2. 02The Dynamo Lesson
  3. 03The New Workflow
  4. 04Supervision Becomes The Craft
  5. 05Composing Work
  6. 06Patterns That Work Today
  7. 07Shipping With Agents
  8. 08The Human Bottleneck Moves
  9. 09Failure Modes And Guardrails
  10. 10The New Operating Literacy
  11. 11Why This Means You Are Early
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