Karl Weick

Foreword

By Edo Segal

The gap I could not close was the one between the meeting and the screen.

I noticed it in Trivandrum, during the training I describe in *You On AI*. In the room, my engineers debated approaches, raised objections, challenged each other's interpretations. Fifteen minutes later, at their desks with Claude open, they moved so fast that the careful discussion was already irrelevant. The prototype had been built. The debate had been overtaken by the artifact. What the room had held open, the screen had closed.

I celebrated that speed. I called it a twenty-fold productivity multiplier. I wrote about it with the energy of a builder who had just witnessed something extraordinary. And I was not wrong — the capability expansion was real, the