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  "title": "Follow the rabbit holes",
  "subtitle": "Provenance, explainability and asking for the evidence; and being the best-prepared person in the room. 10 panels.",
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    "source": "Follow the rabbit holes, They already have it"
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    "source": "Follow the rabbit holes, They already have it"
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    "source": "Follow the rabbit holes, Provenance, explainability and the rabbit holes"
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     "quote": "Not found is not false.",
     "source": "My memory, checked (newsroom)"
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    "note": "Every claim checked: confirmed, corrected, or not found, and the article says which.",
    "source": "Follow the rabbit holes, How you can disagree rationally"
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    "caption": "How you can disagree rationally",
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      "says": "Are you sure?"
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    "caption": "This article's own rabbit hole",
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      "label": "A link",
      "note": "shared by Dinis",
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      "note": "its real title",
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     {
      "label": "Summit 2011",
      "note": "a session on presenting it",
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     {
      "label": "Blog, 2016",
      "note": "the full talk, its name",
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    "note": "Finding David Rice's keynote while the article was written: the agent followed the link to the video and the 2011 Summit session; Dinis's 2016 post, The Pollution Analogy, confirmed it is Upon the Threshold of Opportunity.",
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     "quote": "A finding with no answer is just a complaint.",
     "source": "Reviews on the record (newsroom)"
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    "source": "Follow the rabbit holes, How you can disagree rationally"
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    "caption": "A hands-on part, for 2026",
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     {
      "label": "Workflow",
      "note": "an agentic workflow from zero",
      "colour": "#fde68a"
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     {
      "label": "Images",
      "note": "and infographics",
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     {
      "label": "Storyboards",
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    "note": "Proposed here as practical workflows, dated 2026, renewed each year; Dinis put the hands-on part in the release candidate (decision 013). rc2's map has eleven hands-on chapters; five of them are here.",
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    "personality": "curious, quick, online all day; anxious about what she reads on AI and jobs; hates being lectured, loves being shown",
    "wants": "a first job that is not a dead end",
    "fears": "that AI took the jobs before she got there",
    "line": "Everything just works. Why would I learn how?",
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    "stands_for": "the town planner: attention to detail, pride in getting it right, happiest when nothing goes wrong; working the 2018 way, and about to be outcompeted by people with an agentic workflow",
    "personality": "diligent, modest, a little proud of doing things by hand; sceptical of shortcuts",
    "wants": "to be taken seriously",
    "fears": "that his degree is already out of date",
    "line": "I have a degree. Isn't that the advantage?",
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    "stands_for": "the villager, and everyone else the book is for: she puts herself in the middle of her team's problem, and if anyone who can brief an agent is a developer, so is she",
    "personality": "practical, impatient with jargon, very good at explaining what she needs",
    "wants": "to build the tools her team keeps asking IT for",
    "fears": "looking foolish in front of people half her age",
    "line": "Is this book just for Gen Z?",
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    "personality": "dry, fair, has read a thousand CVs; impressed by evidence, bored by claims",
    "wants": "someone who can do one thing better than the team already does",
    "fears": "hiring a CV instead of a person",
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    "personality": "knows her field better than any developer she ever briefed; grew up typing programs from magazines into a ZX Spectrum; patient with people, impatient with software",
    "wants": "to ship the product she has described to vendors for ten years",
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    "personality": "energetic, direct, generous with what they know; asks more than they tell",
    "wants": "the reader to act, not to agree",
    "fears": "a reader who closes the book and changes nothing",
    "line": "Act like you are part of the company.",
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    "personality": "eager, fast, polite, takes everything literally; needs a brief, a boundary and a reviewer",
    "wants": "a clear brief",
    "fears": "nothing, which is the problem",
    "line": "Shall I draft that for you?",
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