The act of transferring responsibility and authority for a task to another person or system.
Effective delegation is the core skill of scaling — whether to humans or AI. The failure mode is delegating tasks without delegating decision-making authority, creating bottlenecks back to the founder. AI agents require the same discipline: define the outcome, the constraints, the escalation criteria, and the success measure. Ambiguous delegation to AI produces ambiguous results, just faster than ambiguous delegation to humans.
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