@rohanpaul_ai: A firm’s judgment does not live in its archives; it lives in the changes (diffs) senior people make before work ships. …
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This article argues that a firm's true judgment is not found in archived documents but in the edits (diffs) made by senior employees before work is finalized, and that AI should learn from these differences to capture institutional knowledge.
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A firm’s judgment does not live in its archives; it lives in the changes (diffs) senior people make before work ships.
Farsight calls this a system of judgment, i.e software that preserves those edits across real work, can turn repeated decisions into measurable rules.
The next enterprise AI moat is not stored knowledge, but stored judgment.
If AI is going to learn the work of professional firms, it cannot learn only from polished outputs.
AI needs the gap between first draft and final draft, because that gap contains the firm’s private standard of what good means.
Kunal Tangri (@TangriKunal): “Capture your institutional knowledge” has meant the same thing for 30 years: index the documents, search over them.
But a document is the output of judgment with the judgment removed.
The judgment is in the diff. The markup between the first draft and the one that ships. And
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