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Delegate the building of systems that handle recurring task…

Delegate the building of systems that handle recurring task classes rather than delegating individual task instances to create compounding capacity.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Hierarchical Chunking Expands Capacity (hierarchical systems with stable subsystems), The behavior of a system arises from its structure… (system structure determines behavior), and Neural Plasticity Enables Lifelong Automatic Learning (brains detect and extract regularities). The principle prescribes system-level delegation over task-level delegation for compound effects. Strong, actionable, clearly derived.