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Ten AI plans. No one can explain the shared assumption.
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Ten AI plans. No one can explain the shared assumption.
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Ten AI plans. No one can explain the shared assumption. Each artifact pointed to another paraphrase. Do this because more plans will repeat the same loss. #EricFieldNotes
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Picture a team after a customer rollout fails. The repository has ten AI-generated plans, twenty summaries and clean task boards. Every plan assumed a security approval covered all tenants. The original approval covered one.
The first task cites a summary, which cites a note, which cites a draft. None quotes the signed condition or names the person who could widen it. The team spends its response time reconstructing permission rather than fixing the product.
In a safe retrospective exercise, take one completed task and trace it to the exact decision passage. Mark where scope changed, who saw it and whether the final customer effect matched. Keep the receipt for future releases.
Do not ask every agent to write a longer summary. Require a source-linked condition and owner when a draft becomes an authorized task. Test whether the next agent can recover that condition before it acts.
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1. Ten AI plans. No one can explain the shared assumption.
Picture a team after a customer rollout fails. The repository has ten AI-generated plans, twenty summaries and clean task boards. Every plan assumed a security approval covered all tenants. The original approval covered one.
Visual: A fictional postmortem begins with a full dashboard.
2. The missing owner made correction slow.
The first task cites a summary, which cites a note, which cites a draft. None quotes the signed condition or names the person who could widen it. The team spends its response time reconstructing permission rather than fixing the product.
Visual: Each artifact pointed to another paraphrase.
3. Rebuild one causal chain.
In a safe retrospective exercise, take one completed task and trace it to the exact decision passage. Mark where scope changed, who saw it and whether the final customer effect matched. Keep the receipt for future releases.
Visual: Source, condition, handoffs, action and customer result.
4. Repair the promotion boundary.
Do not ask every agent to write a longer summary. Require a source-linked condition and owner when a draft becomes an authorized task. Test whether the next agent can recover that condition before it acts.
Visual: Do this because more plans will repeat the same loss.
Research and claim limits
- Mohamed et al., LLM as a Broken Telephone, ACL 2025 (S167)
- Perez et al., When LLMs Play the Telephone Game, ICLR 2025 (S168)
- NIST AI RMF 1.0 (S171)
The examples identified as illustrative or simulated are design probes, not reported incidents. Vendor specifications do not establish workload performance.