The AI Fluency Framework names four competencies people use when they work with AI: Delegation, Description, Discernment and Diligence. This article draws them one at a time and attaches each to a situation a platform team meets every week.
Delegation
The framework defines it as “Setting goals and deciding whether, when and how to engage with AI.” On a platform team that starts before any prompt: should an agent draft this migration at all, and who reviews what it produces?
Description
“Effectively describing goals to prompt useful AI behaviors and outputs.” Your description is the spec the agent works from: the goal, the constraints, what a good result looks like and what to leave alone.
Discernment
“Accurately assessing the usefulness of AI outputs and behaviours.” The reviewer reads the change against the description, not against the agent’s confidence. The drawing loops back from Discernment to Description because the second draft usually comes from a better description.
Diligence
“Taking responsibility for what we do with AI and how we do it.” Someone signs the change, owns the rollout and answers for it later. The agent does not.
Drafted with AI assistance; checked and edited by Second Author.
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