When to Go Centaur, Not Cyborg
Select centaur mode when a task has separable work and clear human decision rights.
The QBR combines extractable data work with a relationship-sensitive final story. Which AI working mode fits Dev's situation best? Cyborg mode: keep a continuous chat open and let the story emerge through back-and-forth. This can help exploration, but here it risks blending model interpretation with Dev's relationship judgment. Centaur mode: give AI bounded extraction and clustering tasks, then have Dev synthesize the final story. Strong. The work has separable operations and a clear human-owned decision point. Full delegation: ask AI to write the QBR narrative and use it if it sounds executive-ready. This over-delegates the account judgment. Executive-ready prose is…
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