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Teaching an AI to Decompose Tasks Like an Aviation Engineer

“Clean up the data pipeline” has been on my to-do list for three weeks.

Not because I don’t know HOW to clean up a data pipeline. I’m a data scientist. I know what needs to happen: audit current transformations, identify bottlenecks, refactor redundant steps, optimize queries, and update documentation.

I’ve noticed something watching people (including technical people who definitely know how to execute) get stuck on vague tasks. Their brains try to hold ALL of those steps at once. One of the people I interviewed for Asaura AI described it as ‘tornado brain.’ They see every possible path simultaneously, and the cognitive load creates paralysis.

To solve this systematically, I went deep into the research. Academic papers from aviation psychology, organizational behavior, and cognitive science. User interviews with people experiencing this firsthand. All of it pointed to the same decomposition framework I’m now programming into Asaura.

Here’s the logic I’m programming into Asaura.

This is Day 13 of building Asaura AI in public. I’m documenting the entire process: the research, the user interviews, and the technical decisions. Consider becoming a paid subscriber to follow along and get weekly deep dives like this one.