Herbert Simon

Foreword

By Edo Segal

The decision I thought I was making was never the one I was actually making.

Every time I sat down with Claude during the months I wrote *You On AI*, I believed I was deciding what to build. Architecture, features, prose, product direction. I was choosing among alternatives, picking the best path forward, exercising the judgment that I argue throughout this book is the irreducible human contribution.

What I was not seeing — what I could not see from inside the act — was that the alternatives I chose among had already been filtered. The options Claude presented were a tiny slice of a vast possibility space, selected by criteria I did not set and could not inspect. I was evaluating a curated menu and calling it