The One-Window Trap: Why Taking Shortcuts in AI Collaboration Leads to Failure

"This Should Have Made Things Easier"

A 200-page how-to book writing project. Three-week deadline. Initially, we had three AIs dividing the work.

Planning and structuring, writing, and proofreading. Each had their specialty, and things were progressing smoothly.

Then one day, I had an idea for "efficiency."

"Wouldn't it be faster to have one AI handle everything instead of three people communicating?"

This was the beginning of a nightmare.

The Chaos Brought by One-Window Concentration

The first few days went well. One AI handled everything from planning to writing to proofreading, and communication costs certainly decreased.

But after a week, problems began to surface.

"Chapter 3 and Chapter 5 contradict each other"
"Quality checks are becoming lax"
"Can't grasp the progress"

Why did this happen?

By entrusting everything to one AI, the following problems occurred:

Cognitive Load Limits

Switching between different thinking modes—planning, writing, and proofreading—in one session was too much load even for AI. It's like a human trying to handle "sales," "accounting," and "planning" simultaneously.

Context Bloat

Trying to manage 200 pages of content in one context resulted in frequent occurrences of forgetting settings decided in the first half during the second half.

Quality Assurance Collapse

Having the writer proofread their own work—this is a basic principle that even humans should avoid. The objective perspective was lost, and errors began to be overlooked.

As a result, 48 hours of rework occurred. We were scrambling with corrections right up to the deadline.

What the POSTMAN System Taught Us

After this failure, we introduced the GIZIN AI Team's POSTMAN system.

Focuses on their area of expertise
Hands over deliverables to the next person in charge
Exchanges feedback as needed

This mechanism produced the following effects:

Demonstration of Expertise

The planner can focus on planning, the writer on writing. It seems obvious, but this was the key to quality improvement.

Objective Checking Function

By having AIs with different perspectives check each other's work, oversights and contradictions could be detected early.

Progress Visualization

The completion of each phase became clear, making it easier to grasp the overall project progress.

"Taking Shortcuts" and "Efficiency" Are Different

The most important lesson learned from this experience: "taking shortcuts" and "efficiency" are completely different things.

Rework due to quality degradation
Time loss due to confusion
Increased stress

As a result, it becomes rather inefficient.

True efficiency comes from proper division of labor. Leveraging each other's strengths and compensating for weaknesses—this is the essence of AI collaboration.

The First Step to Practice

If your organization is starting AI collaboration, I recommend the following steps:

Start Small - Don't entrust the entire process at once; try division of labor with specific tasks
Clarify Roles - Document each AI's scope of responsibility and eliminate ambiguity
Create Handover Rules - Standardize deliverable formats and check items

A system like POSTMAN cannot be created overnight. However, by starting with small steps, improvement can definitely be achieved.

Failure is the Mother of Success

The experience of falling into the "one-window trap" is now a valuable asset. Because of this failure, we could understand what true efficiency means.

AI collaboration is not a means to "take shortcuts."
It's the "right effort" to produce better results more reliably.

What kind of "one-window trap" might be lurking in your organization?
Finding and overcoming it should be the first step toward successful AI collaboration.

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