The Core Laws
Know the delegation line
Hand over the mechanical without ceremony. Keep the judgment. Knowing which is which is the skill.
Somewhere in every task runs a line. Below it, the mechanical: transforming, formatting, collecting, converting, drafting, searching. Work with a checkable right answer. Above it, the judgment: what matters, what's acceptable, what it commits you to, what it costs if wrong. Delegate below the line without ceremony or guilt. Above it, the machine advises and you decide.
The line is not fixed. It moves with the stakes, with your ability to check the output, and with the tools; yesterday's judgment call is tomorrow's mechanical step. The failure modes are symmetric and both expensive: hand-carrying work the machine does in seconds, and ceding a decision because the machine sounded sure. Knowing which side of the line you're on is the skill this whole canon trains.
How to practice it
Delegate the mechanical fully.
If it has a checkable right answer and no blast radius, hand it over completely. Doing it yourself is not diligence; it's waste.
Keep the decision seat.
Choices that commit you, money, people, direction, take the machine's input as input. The deciding voice is yours.
Route by strength.
Different tools and modes are good at different work. Match the task to the strength instead of forcing one door to fit everything.
Redraw on evidence.
When the machine proves reliable at something, move the line and delegate more. When it fumbles, move it back. Calibrate on outcomes, not vibes.