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March 14, 2026
The jagged frontier was a measurement error
The “jagged frontier” framing that shaped three years of AI strategy was never describing AI intelligence. It was describing what happens when you remove all organizational structure from the work and ask for one answer in one shot.
TL;DR
- A general-purpose coding harness solved a complex math problem better than human-written solutions.
- The successful approach involved decomposition, parallelization, verification, and iteration.
- The most valuable skill in the age of AI is shifting from execution to evaluation of work.
- Organizational insights related to AI strategy are transferable across domains.
- The article introduces a framework for classifying work into machine-checkable, expert-checkable, and judgment-dependent tiers.
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