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You’re Not Being Hired Strictly for Output Anymore. Your Judgment Is What Is in Demand Now.

Companies are running Agile retrospectives while the production function underneath them has changed. The work that built your career was output. The work that holds it now is judgment.

You’re Not Being Hired Strictly for Output Anymore. Your Judgment Is What Is in Demand Now.

TL;DR

  • The AI era has shifted the bottleneck from execution to judgment and decision-making.
  • Traditional methodologies like Agile, focused on output and velocity, are becoming outdated.
  • AI agents can produce code, specs, and reports cheaply, making output abundant.
  • The new scarce resource is the judgment required to decide which tasks are valuable and strategic.
  • Hiring and performance evaluations should shift from measuring output to assessing judgment quality.
  • The 'feature contract' artifact emphasizes upfront judgment, defining the 'why' and 'how' of success before execution.
  • Companies that adapt to valuing judgment will have a competitive advantage in hiring and performance.