Questions for discussion | The AI Agent Factory

Use the story and the exhibits to support your answers. There is no single right answer to most of these questions.

Core questions

What problem was Nisha really trying to solve: money, her career or the fear of AI? Can one book solve all three?
Claude gave its own work 9.5. ChatGPT gave the same work 8 and 7. Which score would you trust, and why?
Which decisions in this case did Nisha make herself? Which of them made the biggest difference to the result?
The AI tools kept adding more than Nisha asked for. Why might this happen? How did Nisha keep control?
What should Nisha do next: write the whole book with the same method, change the method, or start the company? Use evidence from the case, and name the risks.

Nisha checked Claude's first draft herself before any grading. What would have happened if she had gone straight to step 2?
Making the text simpler lowered the accuracy score. When is "simple" more important than "precise"? When is it the other way round?
Claude left out two true facts because it could not find them on the page it checked. Is it better for an AI to leave out a true fact or to include an unchecked one?
Can a book planned with the help of AI prove that Nisha is an expert? What else might an employer want to see?
Nisha now "manages" AI Workers. Is that the same as being a CEO? What other skills would she need?
"AI is not about building apps. AI is about solving problems." Do you agree? Give an example from your own field.

Words or locks? Which of Nisha's rules were enforced by the tools, and which were only words? For example, she told Claude to "repeat until every area reaches 9.5", and it stopped at 9.3. What does this tell you about rules given in a chat? Compare Projects: one team lead, many desks and Security boundaries.
Where did the work live? Which parts of the evening lived only in the chats, and which were saved somewhere lasting? If a chat had been lost halfway through, what could Nisha have rebuilt, and from what? Compare Why the borrowed desk gets cleared.
A project with threads. Nisha used one shared workspace and no threads. How might a rebuilt project, with one thread for writing and one for reviewing, change her method? What would she still have to do herself? Compare Projects: coordination on top of sessions.