Why This Course: The Backlog Nobody Ever Delegated
You have a pile of work that was never worth handing to a person. The two-hour reconciliation. The contract folder nobody's gotten to. The report that stays "good enough" because making it better would cost someone a full day. That pile isn't strategic, and it isn't hard. It's just beneath the cost of delegating it to a human, so it sits there, and a week quietly disappears into it anyway.
Anthropic's own June 2026 study of roughly 400,000 real Claude Code sessions found something specific enough to act on: people who deeply understand the work they're delegating succeed at roughly double the rate of novices, and users make about 70% of the planning decisions on a task but only 20% of the execution decisions. Read that split again. The human decides what. The machine decides how. Read as a job description, that's closer to what a manager does than what a programmer does. The study measured the decision split, not job titles, so that framing is this course's own reading of the number, not a finding stamped on it.
