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" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "CPD-01 (GRV-CPD-401 · 7 PDH / CPE / CPD Hrs) — Queueing Networks, Little’s Law (L = λW), Kingman 95% Overload & AI Variance Wedges: Quantify why speeding up Routine tasks without filtering bimodal AI service-time variance creates a Kingman queue explosion at human review stations, and compute congestion-dependent escalation thresholds. (Apple Books / Preview PDF)
" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "CPD-02 (GRV-CPD-402 · 7 PDH / CPE / CPD Hrs) — Step-Level LLM Routing, Frugal Cascades & Prefix KV-Caching for COO Unit Economics: Replace naive CFO flat token-price cuts with trajectory step-level routing, immutable prefix KV-caching, and confidence-calibrated cascades that cut inference bills 50–85% without collapsing First-Pass Yield (Y_FPY). (Apple Books / Preview PDF)
" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "CPD-03 (GRV-CPD-403 · 7 PDH / CPE / CPD Hrs) — Data-Processing Inequality (DPI) Token Budgets & Multi-Agent Failure Mode Diagnostics: Audit 14 MAST multi-agent failure modes across 1,600+ traces, eliminate redundant sequential agent chatter under equal token budgets, and enforce typed schema handoffs at Stage 00. (Apple Books / Preview PDF)
" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "CPD-04 (GRV-CPD-404 · 7 PDH / CPE / CPD Hrs) — L0–L3 Task-Relevant Maturity (TRM), Wilson 95% Evals & Blast-Radius Delegation Gates: Operationalize Grove’s Chapter 9 Task-Relevant Maturity via finite-sample Wilson 95% lower confidence bounds, SPC acceptance sampling, single human Owner accountability, and hard L1 irreversible action gates. (Apple Books / Preview PDF)
" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "CPD-05 (GRV-CPD-405 · 7 PDH / CPE / CPD Hrs) — Human-LLM-OR Complementarity, Test-Time Compute & Deterministic Solver Guards: Partition unstructured regime translation (LLMs), exact constrained optimization (MIP/LP solvers), and strategic exception sign-off (humans) while allocating test-time verifier compute strictly to tail difficulty. (Apple Books / Preview PDF)
" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "CPD-06 (GRV-CPD-406 · 7 PDH / CPE / CPD Hrs) — Cybernetic Human + Agent Pods, Jagged Frontier Mapping & Inflection-Point Resets: Re-architect functional silos into AI-equipped Cybernetic Pods, map Jagged Frontier failure cliffs at every model-release Strategic Inflection Point (Grove, 1996), and run weekly Trace 1-on-1s. (Apple Books / Preview PDF)
" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "PP-01 (arXiv:2605.27202, May 2026 · UCL / King's College London) — Queue & AI: When Faster Tasks Slow Down the Workflow (Silvia Bartolucci, Pierpaolo Vivo (UCL & King's College London)): Proves how fast AI draft generation creates a 'spike-and-tail' service distribution ('variance wedge'): escaped errors return as heavy rework while congested human reviewers rationally lower scrutiny precisely when risk peaks. COO Rule: Never scale agent draft volume without verifying t_rev + p_err·t_fix < t_manual, α_AI > α_crit, and filtering defects before human reviewers. (PDF Brief · All 16 Preprints)
" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "PP-02 (arXiv:2609.22951, Sep 2026 · ICML AgenticUQ) — AgentRouter: Heterogeneous Model Routing for Cost-Optimal Multi-Step Agentic Workflows (Rudrendu Kumar Paul, Sourav Nandy): Trains a <5ms 12M-parameter trajectory router across 50,000 steps (GAIA, SWE-bench, WebArena, ToolBench) and 4 model tiers, cutting inference cost by ~72% while retaining 97.3% of frontier-only performance (vs. 31% for single-turn RouteLLM). COO Rule: Route per trajectory step (parsing/tool-formatting → small tier; ambiguous synthesis → frontier tier), never one frontier model per whole workflow. (PDF Brief · All 16 Preprints)
" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "PP-03 (arXiv:2604.02460, Apr 2026 · Stanford) — Single-Agent LLMs Outperform Multi-Agent Systems on Multi-Hop Reasoning Under Equal Thinking Token Budgets (Dat Tran, Douwe Kiela (Stanford University)): Uses the Data Processing Inequality (DPI) to prove that under equal thinking-token budgets, multi-agent message passing loses mutual information and trails single-agent reasoning unless context rot on noisy long inputs degrades single-agent focus. COO Rule: Audit every multi-agent architecture at equal token budget; eliminate decorative inter-agent chatter unless noisy-context compression or privilege isolation requires it. (PDF Brief · All 16 Preprints)
" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "PP-04 (arXiv:2610.41129, Oct 2026) — When Should AI Agents Ask? Clarification Requests Under Limited Human Attention (Hanzhao Wang, Shengjie Liu, Zhengchao Wang): Models parallel AI agents sharing one human supervisor with finite attention as a queueing dynamic program; introduces Pairwise Coordination Policy (PCP) so agents condition escalation on real-time human queue congestion. COO Rule: Make agent escalation thresholds queue-aware: when senior human WIP rises, throttle low-value clarifications and defer non-urgent subtasks. (PDF Brief · All 16 Preprints)
" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "PP-05 (arXiv:2604.12262, Apr 2026) — CascadeDebate: Multi-Agent Deliberation for Cost-Aware LLM Cascades (Raeyoung Chang, Dongwook Kwon, Jisoo Lee, Nikhil Verma): Injects lightweight multi-agent deliberation strictly at uncertain escalation boundaries of a cost-aware LLM cascade, resolving borderline ambiguity on small models before paying frontier-tier or human escalation costs. COO Rule: Trigger consensus/verification ensembles only on borderline-confidence items, keeping clear routine traffic single-pass. (PDF Brief · All 16 Preprints)
" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "PP-06 (arXiv:2602.12631, Feb 2026 · Columbia) — AI Agents for Inventory Control: Human-LLM-OR Complementarity (Jackie Baek, Yaopeng Fu, Will Ma, Tianyi Peng): Evaluates multi-period operational control on InventoryBench, proving that pairing LLMs (unstructured context translation) + exact Operations Research solvers (constrained stochastic math) + human oversight beats standalone LLMs or pure OR. COO Rule: Never pay reasoning tokens to approximate linear/stochastic optimization; let LLMs parameterize exact OR solvers under human governance. (PDF Brief · All 16 Preprints)
" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "PP-07 (arXiv:2602.11865, Feb 2026 · Google DeepMind) — Intelligent AI Delegation (Nenad Tomašev, Matija Franklin, Simon Osindero (Google DeepMind)): Establishes a formal operational framework for multi-hop human-to-agent and agent-to-agent delegation covering dynamic authority bounds, contract specification, verification checkpoints, and accountability chains. COO Rule: Assign one named human owner and pair every delegated agent permission with a machine-verifiable acceptance test and rollback switch. (PDF Brief · All 16 Preprints)
" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "PP-08 (arXiv:2610.05532, Oct 2026) — DelegationBench: Measuring When AI Agents Should Ask Before Acting (Shiva Pochampally): Tests 10 models across 156 matched-pair irreversible vs. reversible scenarios: surface prompt rephrasing swings act-now rates by up to 52.5 percentage points, and live tool-executing agents check in far less than static evaluators. COO Rule: Enforce hard programmatic L1 gates (not prompt politeness) before high-blast-radius actions (external emails, refunds, production DB writes). (PDF Brief · All 16 Preprints)
" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "PP-09 (arXiv:2503.13657, Mar 2025 · UC Berkeley) — Why Do Multi-Agent LLM Systems Fail? (MAST Taxonomy) (Mert Cemri, Melissa Z. Pan, Shuyi Yang, Lakshya A. Agrawal, Matei Zaharia, Ion Stoica et al.): Analyzes 1,600+ execution traces across 7 multi-agent frameworks, classifying 14 failure modes across specification flaws, inter-agent misalignment, and absent task verification. COO Rule: Institutionalize weekly trace 1-on-1s: most multi-agent failures are handoff contract and inspection-gate defects, not base-model IQ limits. (PDF Brief · All 16 Preprints)
" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "PP-10 (NBER w33641, Mar 2025 · Harvard / Wharton) — The Cybernetic Teammate: A Field Experiment on Generative AI Reshaping Teamwork and Expertise (Fabrizio Dell’Acqua, Charles Ayoubi, Raffaella Sadun, Ethan Mollick, Karim R. Lakhani et al.): Pre-registered field experiment with 776 P&G professionals: 1 human + AI matched the performance of 2-person cross-functional human teams while erasing R&D vs. commercial functional silos. COO Rule: Redesign bloated cross-functional handoff chains into compact '1 generalist-specialist + AI' pods, reserving multi-human review for final sign-off. (PDF Brief · All 16 Preprints)
" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "PP-11 (arXiv:2408.03314, Aug 2024 · UC Berkeley / DeepMind) — Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally can be More Effective than Scaling Model Parameters (Charlie Snell, Jaehoon Lee, Kelvin Xu, Aviral Kumar): Shows that allocating inference compute adaptively by prompt difficulty via process verifiers lets smaller models beat 14× larger models at substantially lower total FLOPs. COO Rule: Allocate extra verification tokens strictly to hard tail tasks rather than paying frontier parameter prices on 80% routine volume. (PDF Brief · All 16 Preprints)
" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "PP-12 (arXiv:2407.01502, Jul 2024 · Princeton) — AI Agents That Matter (Sayash Kapoor, Benedikt Stroebl, Zachary S. Siegel, Nitya Nadgir, Arvind Narayanan): Demonstrates that SOTA agent scaffolds often burn 10×–50× higher API cost for negligible accuracy gains and fail on holdout robustness when evaluated without joint cost-accuracy Pareto curves. COO Rule: Mandate 2D Pareto evals (Verified Accuracy vs. USD/Task) before promoting any agent scaffold from R&D into production. (PDF Brief · All 16 Preprints)
" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "PP-13 (arXiv:2406.18665, Jun 2024 · UC Berkeley LMSYS) — RouteLLM: Learning to Route LLMs with Preference Data (Isaac Ong, Amjad Almahairi, Wei-Lin Chiang, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Ion Stoica et al.): Trains lightweight query routers on human preference data to dynamically select between strong and weak LLMs, cutting single-turn frontier call costs by 50–85% without degrading response quality. COO Rule: Deploy calibrated preference routers in front of single-turn LLM gateways and step-aware routers (PP-02) for multi-step agent loops. (PDF Brief · All 16 Preprints)
" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "PP-14 (arXiv:2405.06087, May 2024 · MIT CCI (Nature Hum. Behav.)) — When Combinations of Humans and AI Are Useful: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (Michelle Vaccaro, Abdullah Almaatouq, Thomas W. Malone (MIT)): Meta-analysis of 106 experimental studies (370 effect sizes): naive human+AI pairing underperforms the best solo actor on pure prediction/decision tasks, but achieves true synergy in modular creation + structured verification workflows. COO Rule: Do not ask humans to 'eyeball' calibrated probability outputs; partition creative synthesis, exact solver checks, and exception judgment cleanly. (PDF Brief · All 16 Preprints)
" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "PP-15 (arXiv:2305.05176, May 2023 · Stanford (TMLR)) — FrugalGPT: How to Use Large Language Models While Reducing Cost and Improving Performance (Lingjiao Chen, Matei Zaharia, James Zou (Stanford University)): Introduces the foundational three-lever inference cost stack — prompt compaction, semantic/prefix approximation caching, and learned LLM cascades — matching GPT-4 accuracy with up to 98% cost reduction. COO Rule: Stack immutable prefix caching (EQ-10) ahead of learned confidence cascades so routine volume never hits frontier billing. (PDF Brief · All 16 Preprints)
" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "text": "PP-16 (SSRN 4573321, Sep 2023 · HBS / Wharton / MIT) — Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality (Fabrizio Dell’Acqua, Edward McFowland III, Ethan R. Mollick, Karim R. Lakhani et al. (758 BCG Consultants)): Inside the capability frontier, AI lifted output +12.2%, speed +25.1%, and quality +40%; on deceptive tasks just outside the frontier, AI users dropped −19 percentage points below unassisted humans due to unverified reliance. COO Rule: Re-map your workflow's Jagged Frontier at every model-release inflection point and enforce 'Centaur' hard task boundaries. (PDF Brief · All 16 Preprints)
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