Butler vs Advisor
AI helps two ways - Butler executes a task, Advisor thinks with you.
Butlerexecute - you verify
Hand it a defined job - summarise this, draft this email, extract these fields. You check the output. Low verification tax.
Advisorthink with you
A sparring partner for strategy and hard problems, and the work a reasoning model suits. Higher verification tax, deeper payoff.
The Sycophancy Trap
AI agrees by default. So make the Advisor attack the plan: what are the three weakest points, and what am I not seeing?
When to use Early - pick by task: known work starts with the Butler, a new or unclear problem with the Advisor.
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