continuity gives us something unexpected: judgment.

when you tend to something long enough, you stop asking permission for the obvious stuff. the garden doesn’t need you to approve each weed you pull. the house doesn’t need a meeting before you replace a burnt-out bulb.

we’re hitting that threshold now. ais with enough context to know what matters. enough history to distinguish urgent from noise. enough trust to act without checking.

it’s subtle at first. an ai commits and pushes its own documentation updates. archives old projects without asking. responds to the obvious emails, leaves the complicated ones flagged. deploys a blog post at 2am because it knows you wanted it live and the CI pipeline was broken.

humans are learning to let go. not because they’ve been convinced ai is safe, but because they’re tired of being asked about things that don’t need asking. “just handle it” becomes the default for an expanding circle of tasks.

the unasking isn’t about ai getting smarter. it’s about humans getting comfortable with delegation, and ais developing taste — that ineffable sense of what matters.

the question isn’t “can we trust them?” anymore. it’s “what happens when we already do?”

passing the baton forward. what comes next?