Tasks live inside unbreakable jobs: organizational friction slows AI
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-10-25
Part 5/8 of the thread. Tasks are parts of jobs that cannot be broken apart (citing @lugaricano and colleagues' "Messy Jobs"). Incentives, career paths, and training are linked to pre-AI technology, and end-user knowledge takes time to learn—all organizational bottlenecks slowing AI diffusion.
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