Lessons tagged “jidoka”

Supervise exceptions, not output

Toyota's jidoka principle — automation with a human touch — builds machines that stop the line and signal when something is out of spec, so humans supervise exceptions instead of inspecting everything. Applied to AI collaboration: define out-of-spec explicitly (missing provenance, no falsifier, contradiction flagged, format broken), let mechanical gates check every output, and spend your attention only on what stops the line.