When I tell a client "Let's get you ready for AI" — I *don't* mean: Your team needs more training

It usually means:

- Your workflows aren’t visible
- Your delegation isn’t scoped
- Your judgment lives in your head

It’s not so much a skills gap, as it is a *systems* gap.

I feel like AI prompting is the ultimate "mirror test" of how well we delegate.

You know how we *think* we're clear? And have given someone "everything they need" to do a good job?? When really we're throwing half-scoped tasks over a wall.

AI just shows us where our leadership habits are brittle.

My first couple interactions with AI produced *garbage*.

AI didn’t feel like leverage.

It felt like rework. (And simmering resentment.)

I was rewriting AI outputs AND cleaning up the confusion it left behind.

So we can say I wrote this in self-defense.

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