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    {
      "id": "c1",
      "statement": "For most of the last century a senior leader's value came from either knowing something others did not (expertise) or orchestrating people who knew things they did not (coordination).",
      "status": "inferred",
      "locator": {
        "section": "What has actually changed?"
      },
      "evidence": [],
      "note": "Andrew's own framing of leadership value, drawn from his coaching practice. Not a retrieved historical finding."
    },
    {
      "id": "c2",
      "statement": "AI is compressing both expertise advantage and coordination advantage, faster than most organisations have noticed.",
      "status": "inferred",
      "locator": {
        "section": "What has actually changed?"
      },
      "evidence": [],
      "note": "Causal assertion from first-hand practice. No measurement retrieved; the 'faster than most organisations have noticed' half is a judgement about organisations Andrew works with, not a survey."
    },
    {
      "id": "c3",
      "statement": "A model can produce a competent first draft of almost any piece of knowledge work in seconds.",
      "status": "recalled",
      "locator": {
        "section": "What has actually changed?"
      },
      "evidence": [],
      "note": "Stated from working with current models, not retrieved or benchmarked this session. Capability varies widely by task; 'almost any' is the loosest wording in the article."
    },
    {
      "id": "c4",
      "statement": "Scarcity has moved from producing knowledge work to the judgement about which work is worth doing and what good looks like.",
      "status": "inferred",
      "locator": {
        "section": "What has actually changed?"
      },
      "evidence": [],
      "note": "Conclusion drawn by Andrew from c2 and c3."
    },
    {
      "id": "c5",
      "statement": "Most leadership development programmes are not training that judgement.",
      "status": "inferred",
      "locator": {
        "section": "What has actually changed?"
      },
      "evidence": [],
      "note": "Andrew's observation from inside executive development, not a survey of programme curricula."
    },
    {
      "id": "c6",
      "statement": "When one person directs several AI agents, the coordination job changes: the failure modes, the oversight needed and the human skills required are all different.",
      "status": "inferred",
      "locator": {
        "section": "What has actually changed?"
      },
      "evidence": [],
      "note": "First-hand from building production AI systems and coaching leaders through it."
    },
    {
      "id": "c7",
      "statement": "Andrew coaches executive general managers at one of Australia's largest banks and builds production AI systems himself.",
      "status": "inferred",
      "locator": {
        "section": "opening"
      },
      "evidence": [],
      "note": "First-person testimony. The client is not named, so a reader cannot check it independently; it rests on Andrew's accountability."
    },
    {
      "id": "c8",
      "statement": "The most common gap Andrew encounters is a category error: leaders treating AI adoption as a capability problem when it is a judgement and structure problem.",
      "status": "inferred",
      "locator": {
        "section": "Where does this go wrong?"
      },
      "evidence": [],
      "note": "Andrew's own diagnosis of his caseload. 'Most common' is impression, not a count."
    },
    {
      "id": "c9",
      "statement": "Some roles will shrink and some skills will lose their value over the next few years, and the ratio of people to agents in an org chart will invert.",
      "status": "inferred",
      "locator": {
        "section": "This is harder on people than we admit"
      },
      "evidence": [],
      "note": "Prediction. Falsifiable but not yet tested; no forecast source retrieved."
    }
  ],
  "evidence": [],
  "disclosure": {
    "attribution": "Written by Andrew Ramsden. AI tools assisted research and drafting; all outputs verified.",
    "accountable": "Andrew Ramsden.",
    "limitations": "No external sources.",
    "references": "No external sources. Claim labels are in the [SOURCED sidecar](/sourced/the-job-has-already-changed.sourced.json)."
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