https://ivanermakov.eu/posts/Recent content in Writing on Ivan ErmakovHugoenThu, 16 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200https://ivanermakov.eu/posts/ai-hasnt-replaced-me-yet/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200https://ivanermakov.eu/posts/ai-hasnt-replaced-me-yet/<p>AI hasn&rsquo;t replaced me as a delivery director yet. But it has quietly replaced about a third of what I used to call &ldquo;my work&rdquo;.</p> <p>For the past year I&rsquo;ve been running AI inside my daily delivery work - not pilots, not slideware. Agentic coding tools, integrations I built myself, multi-agent workflows for analysis and documentation.</p> <h2 id="what-actually-changed">What actually changed</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Analysis and documentation: 30-50% faster.</strong> Not a benchmark from a vendor deck - my own measured reality.</li> <li><strong>First drafts of anything</strong> (status reports, risk registers, meeting summaries) are no longer written by humans. They are <em>reviewed</em> by humans.</li> <li><strong>The bottleneck moved</strong>: from producing information to judging it.</li> </ul> <h2 id="what-didnt-change">What didn&rsquo;t change</h2> <ul> <li>Clients still buy trust, not tokens.</li> <li>Stakeholder alignment is still handmade.</li> <li>Accountability doesn&rsquo;t delegate.</li> </ul> <p>The uncomfortable part: most delivery organizations still price and plan as if none of this happened.</p>