Hybrid Intelligence
Human-AI collaboration that compounds capability
THE CORE INSIGHT
When everything becomes cheap, something becomes expensive.
Manufacturing became cheap. Design became expensive.
Distribution became cheap. Attention became expensive.
AI capability became cheap. Human judgment became expensive.
The bottleneck moved from production to evaluation. From generating options to choosing direction. From creating analysis to building conviction.
Same tool, two paths: one makes AI indispensable, the other makes you more capable. The difference is who provides context first.
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The Apprenticeship Problem
You need experience to supervise AI. But AI eliminates the entry-level roles where people gain experience. In 5 years, who becomes senior?
This is the tension at the heart of hybrid intelligence.
THE MECHANISM (CHOOSE YOUR ANGLE)
"Why did cheap AI make things harder, not easier?"
Cheap Capability, Expensive Judgment
"How do I actually work WITH AI without losing my edge?"
Who Thinks First
"Why do AI demos work but production implementations fail?"
Demos Versus Production
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CONNECTED PATTERNS
Hybrid Intelligence connects to Cognitive Leverage (the skill architecture that makes judgment possible) and Emergent Loops (how AI feedback creates unexpected system behaviors).