AI at work · fictional workplace scenes
One channel becomes the whole project
Ollie asks Otto for a project status using the channel he can access. It contains completed design tasks, while Casey's unresolved review lives in a separate channel. The summary calls the project ready. Dana forwards it to the handoff team without seeing that its evidence covered only one part of the work.
Why it looked good
Every task in the available channel is complete. The summary hides the boundary around the information it actually used.
Q1 · What is this really for?
Does this status need to describe design progress or readiness for the full handoff?
Q2 · Who decides, and did they?
Who can confirm the missing review, and has the handoff owner seen that confirmation?
The next move
Ollie names the summary's limited coverage and asks Casey for the review status instead of requesting access through another route.
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