Re: A Framework for Human-AI Collaboration in Standards Work

On Sun, Apr 19, 2026 at 12:05 PM Christoph <christoph@christophdorn.com>
wrote:

> I want to apologize for spamming the list. That was not my intention.
> Thank you Manu for making this clear to me.
>

Ashby’s law still holds: every amplifier needs matching attenuators. LLM
vendors have no incentive to build them — the gradient runs the other way.

So attenuation falls to us. About 80% of my time with these tools goes to
compressing their output back into the principles worth keeping. The
discipline is noticing what to leave out.

— Christopher Allen