The Composer Doesn't Play Every Instrument
When a composer creates a symphony, they don't learn to play every instrument. They don't personally bow each violin or strike each timpani. They describe the music they want — the tempo, the dynamics, the emotion — and the orchestra performs it.
This is what working with AI should feel like.
For too long, automation has meant programming. Writing rules. Handling exceptions. Becoming, in essence, a machine yourself — thinking in steps and conditions instead of outcomes and intentions.
But you already know how to get work done through others. You do it every day. You tell a colleague "research our competitors' pricing" — you don't say "open Chrome, navigate to competitor-a.com, find the pricing page, copy the numbers into a spreadsheet..."
That's not how delegation works. And it's not how AI should work either.
What Delegation Actually Looks Like
Here's the shift:
"Search Google for X, open the first three results, extract the main points, format them as bullet points, check for accuracy, compile into a summary..."
"Research X and summarize the key findings."
"Connect to the database, query orders from the last 30 days, filter by status, group by customer, calculate totals, generate a CSV, email it to..."
"Send me a monthly sales summary by customer."
The difference isn't just shorter instructions. It's a fundamentally different relationship with the work. You're not engineering a solution. You're describing what you need.
Your First Performance
The first time you describe a workflow in plain language and watch it build itself, something clicks.
It's not that the technology is impressive (though it is). It's that you realize you've been thinking about this wrong. You don't need to become more technical. You need to become more clear.
Clear about what you actually want.
Clear about what outcome matters.
Clear about what "done" looks like.
These are skills you already have. You use them every time you delegate to a human. The only difference is now you're delegating to an AI orchestra — a team of specialized agents who coordinate without meetings and handoff work without email.
And here's what makes it different from other automation: you can watch them work. Not because you have to — but because seeing builds understanding, and understanding builds trust. You describe what you want at a high level, then watch your orchestra figure out the details.
This Changes How You Think About Work
Once you see work this way, you can't unsee it.
Every repetitive task becomes a potential delegation.
Every "I wish someone could just..." becomes a workflow description.
Every process that lives in your head becomes something your AI orchestra can perform.
The question stops being "what can I automate?" and becomes "what do I want done?"
That's a much better question. Because you always know what you want done. You just didn't know you could simply... say it.
Now you can.
Describe the music. Watch your orchestra perform.
Describe what you need. Watch your orchestra perform.
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