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Prompt #4Claude on max effort, and we tell the CEO it's complicated

“Put Claude on max effort for all this complexity. We'll tell the CEO that IT is always a bit complicated anyway.”

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What Claude replies (roughly)

$ claude --effort max "handle the complexity"
Complexity abstracted: 100% (unread)
// Message to the CEO: “IT is always a bit complicated.”
// The CEO replied: “Yes, indeed.”

Observed consequences

• The complexity hasn't gone away: it's simply out of sight, in a file nobody opens.
• The steering committee receives a slide with a single phrase: “complexity under control”.
• The day Claude is unavailable, nobody knows how it works anymore.

Verdict

The complexity is abstracted. The risk is very concrete.

Recommendation: “It's complicated” is not steering information. Management needs risks, costs, dependencies and alternatives quantified; otherwise investment trade-offs are made blind and complexity becomes an unowned risk. Keep people able to take the system over without an assistant.

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