My Life in the Harness

I don’t work in a chat window anymore. I work in the Business Engineer’s harness.

Somewhere in the last few months, the shape of how I produce has changed. I stopped typing prompts and reading answers one at a time, and started setting a frame in the morning and watching a swarm of agents carry it through the day — drafting, optimizing, scheduling, measuring, adjusting — while I did the one thing none of them can do for themselves: decide what was worth doing, and define what good meant before any of it ran.

And I’m rarely at a desk when it happens. I set the frame from a phone — in transit, between other things, walking — because the work no longer runs where I am. It runs in a runtime somewhere else, and the thing in my hand is just the surface I steer it through. The computer I spent thirty years sitting in front of has quietly left the room.

This isn’t a piece about tools. It’s about what’s left for a person to do once the tools can do almost everything. The answer is smaller and sharper than most people expect — and the whole map of it fits in six moves. Here they are, one at a time.

THE BUSINESS ENGINEER

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