Questions for discussion

Use these after you have read the six story pages. The first six are the core. The rest are optional.

Core questions

1. By hand, the pack took 17 hours. Which of Hamza's six steps did the setup remove, which did it make shorter, and which did it leave as it was? What does that tell you about where the time went?
2. The firm used seven parts (see the table in What the setup did). Choose two, and say what would have gone wrong on Wednesday without each of them.
3. On Tuesday Sana stopped Hamza from typing the bank's minimum into slide 2. On Wednesday she stopped him from changing the figure on slide 2. What is the rule behind both? When would a fix by hand be the right choice?
4. Claude prepared both packs. Nisha approved one and Sana the other. List what each approver could know about the pack before she wrote her name, and how she knew it.
5. Which of Hamza's tests on Tuesday was designed wrongly? What independent evidence should every reconciliation approval require?
6. It is Friday evening in Karachi. What should Nisha tell Walter on Monday? Choose a place on the line (prepare only, send if READY, send always) and one way to charge. Then say one thing that could still go wrong with your answer, and who would catch it.

Optional questions

7. Hamza wanted to keep every file in a folder on his computer. Nisha kept the monthly files in the shared drive. What would have happened at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday if they had been only in his folder?
8. The matching ran on a borrowed desk that was cleared afterward. Where did the firm keep the things that had to last? Name three, and say where each one was.
9. The sheet, the memo and the slides each hold their own copy of the figure. The setup writes them in one run. Is that enough? What check would you add, and who would do it?
10. Hamza checked twenty matched pairs out of 3,395. Is that a good check? What kind of mistake would it miss?
11. Tuesday's run used a download that was four days old. Whose mistake was that: Claude's, Hamza's, or the setup's? How did the firm fix it?
12. Is this just Google Docs with AI? Say what a good document editor with AI help would have done for the firm this week, and what it would not have done. Be fair to both sides.
13. Walter says the computer did the work in half an hour, so the price should fall. Write the three strongest sentences Nisha could say in reply. Then write the strongest answer Walter could give.
14. The setup did two days of work in 25 minutes. Sana says it could do two days of damage as fast. Describe one way that could happen in this firm, and what would stop it.
15. The project's instructions changed twice this week, once on Tuesday and once on Friday. Who should be allowed to change them? Who should review the change, and where would you keep a record of it?

Optional questions that connect to the series

16. Where is Nisha on the ladder now? From helper to AI Worker describes steps from a helper to a business AI Worker. Which step is the Lakeshore setup on? What is still missing for the next one?
17. The desk and what lasts. Why the borrowed desk gets cleared says that work must be saved outside the desk. List everything in this case that outlived a desk, and where it was saved.
18. Words and locks. Staying safe says permissions, not words, keep a job safe. Which of the project's rules are only words? Which are backed by something Claude cannot do?
19. All four cases. Each case added one question: is the work good, whose name is on it, whose word does the worker take, and what stays with people. Answer all four for a job of your own that comes back every week or month.