Frontier Operations
Self-Assessment
Score yourself against the 5 frontier ops skills. No AI required — honest self-assessment only.
Framework by Ethan Mollick. Infrastructure by Dico Angelo.
Boundary Sensing
Maintaining accurate, up-to-date operational intuition about where the human-agent boundary sits.
1. Do you know which tasks your AI tools handle reliably vs where they fail?
2. Have you updated your mental model of AI capabilities in the last 30 days?
3. Can you name 3 specific tasks where you shifted from manual to AI-delegated this quarter?
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Seam Design
Structuring work so transitions between human and agent phases are clean, verifiable, and recoverable.
1. When you delegate work to AI, do you define explicit verification checkpoints?
2. Can you break a project into agent-executable vs human-required phases?
3. Do you have documented handoff artifacts between AI and human work?
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Failure Model Maintenance
Maintaining an accurate current mental model of HOW agents fail — not just that they fail.
1. Can you describe HOW your AI tools fail on specific task types (not just that they fail)?
2. Do you verify AI output differently based on task type?
3. Have you logged or tracked AI failure patterns systematically?
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Capability Forecasting
Ability to forecast where the AI boundary will move next — tracking model releases and adjusting workflows before the seam shifts.
1. Do you track AI model releases and how they affect your workflow?
2. Have you redesigned a workflow in response to a new model capability?
3. Can you predict which of your current manual tasks will be AI-delegatable within 6 months?
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Attention Calibration
Knowing where human attention creates most value at the current boundary — managing attention across agent-assisted work.
1. Do you review AI output at different depths depending on task risk?
2. Can you articulate where your attention creates value vs where it's wasted on AI review?
3. Do you have a system for deciding what to deeply review vs what to trust?
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Framework by Ethan Mollick. Assessment built by Dico Angelo.