Nobody Checked Deloitte's Report. One Academic Did. It Cost Them A$97,587.
The people who take the time to read with care are paying for the people who don’t. Here’s the skill I built to keep your own work out of that pile — and why no skill can do the part that matters.
TL;DR
- Many people send or receive documents without fully reading or meaning them.
- The internet has fostered suspicion regarding the content of emails and reports.
- Unread documents that influence decisions incur real financial and time costs.
- Treating authorship as a process with AI as a tool can maintain speed without compromising quality.
- The cost of 'slop' is illustrated by examples from a government department, an open-source maintainer, and a federal judge.
- Prompt engineering expertise did not prevent consultants from performing worse in a controlled trial.
- AI speeds up each draft iteration but does not reduce the number of drafts needed to find meaning.
- Human attention is the scarce commodity, and being worth reading is a career advantage.
- A 'pro-authorship' skill teaches AI to preserve the author's protected choices.