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We ran an experiment 2 weeks ago.

Control group: a two-hour roadmap review meeting. Six people in a room (virtual). We debated features. We argued about timelines. We discussed dependencies. We left feeling productive.

Test group: We fed the same roadmap into Claude. No slides. No politics. No one trying to protect their pet project. Just the raw plan. The prompt: "Analyze this roadmap. Identify the three most likely failure points. Use first principles reasoning. Assume we will follow your recommendations without ego. If you need more data, ask for it."

The results were not symmetrical.

Yesterday, Jay Graber (Former Bluesky's CEO) introduced Attie  the first agentic social app on Atproto.

(currently as an invite-only closed beta)

It should allow users to:

I'll take the hit.

AI has no idea when someone is politely furious.

You know the email. "Hi team, just circling back on this again as I haven't heard anything. Thanks for your attention to this matter." Reads like a sweet grandma wrote it.

A human reads that and thinks "oh no, they are about to burn the building down." AI reads it and thinks "great sentiment, very positive, 98% satisfaction score."