“Three-Tap Guy” and “firing the CEO” are jokes that personify workflow steps. No real person is being fired here.
1. Before, the article was finished but the work was not
You tell the AI, “Turn everything so far into an article.”
The article appears.
Great.
Except the human still has a job after that.
The old flow looked roughly like this:
- Receive the Markdown file.
- Download it.
- Open GitHub.
- Move to the target folder.
- Upload the file.
- Commit it.
- Check that it actually arrived.
Every step is tiny.
That is exactly why nobody bothers to eliminate it.
“It is only three taps. I will just do it.”
And at that moment, the Three-Tap Guy is born.
His entire job is carrying a file made by AI into GitHub.
The job is easy.
The problem is that it comes back every single time.
A tiny task is not harmless because it is tiny.
It becomes annoying because it reproduces.
2. Connect GitHub, and the taps disappear
Then we connected the AI directly to GitHub.
The new flow became:
- Say, “Turn this into an article.”
- The AI writes it.
- The AI saves it directly into the target folder.
- The AI fetches the saved file again.
- The AI checks that the file really exists.
- The AI reports success or failure.
The human side is now almost entirely one instruction.
That triggered an immediate restructuring.
Three-Tap Guy: unemployed.
Three-Tap Guy: “Time to carry another Markdown file!”
GitHub integration: “That position was eliminated yesterday.”
Three-Tap Guy: “What?”
3. This is not time saving. It is process deletion
Normal efficiency work makes the same task faster.
A five-minute task becomes a two-minute task.
That is useful.
But this change goes further.
We did not make the human upload faster.
We removed the need for the human upload step.
That distinction matters.
There is a hard limit to how quickly someone can click.
There is no need to optimize a click that no longer exists.
You also stop needing to remember the procedure.
You stop asking, “Which folder was it again?”
You reduce forgotten uploads.
You reduce context switching.
The best process improvement is not making humans faster.
It is giving humans fewer pointless things to do.
4. Automating the read-back check makes it much stronger
Saving the file is not quite enough.
A system can appear to succeed while using the wrong path.
The filename can be wrong.
The content can be incomplete.
So after saving, the workflow fetches the same file from GitHub again.
Then it checks that the file exists.
If needed, it also checks the contents.
The workflow becomes:
Create → Save → Read back → Report the result
That final check matters more than it looks.
If automation saves the file but a human still has to open GitHub every time and ask, “Did it really work?”, then the verification task survived.
Three-Tap Guy has not been fired.
He has merely been demoted to One-Tap Guy.
Finish the job.
5. We did not remove three taps. We removed “three taps” as a profession
At first, the change sounded small.
“Nice. Three fewer taps.”
But that understates what happened.
What disappeared was the need for a human in the middle.
Under the old flow, 100 articles meant 100 moments when a person became the file courier.
Under the new flow, the instruction remains basically the same whether there are 100 files or 1,000.
The more the volume grows, the more valuable process deletion becomes.
Three-Tap Guy files a complaint.
Three-Tap Guy: “You stole my job!”
Process improvement team: “We stole your clicks.”
Three-Tap Guy: “That is worse!”
6. Improve the process too much and eventually the CEO gets fired
Now we enter full joke territory.
Writing is automated.
Saving is automated.
Verification is automated.
Publication prep keeps getting automated.
Eventually someone asks the obvious question.
“What are the humans supposed to do?”
CEO: “What am I supposed to do?”
Process improvement team: “We will ask the AI.”
CEO: “CEO fired.”
Process improvement has now penetrated the executive floor.
Of course, the serious lesson is not that every important decision should be automated.
It is the opposite.
Remove repetitive transport, copying, and verification work so humans can spend more time on judgments that actually benefit from humans.
The CEO can stay.
Three-Tap Guy is negotiable.
7. Conclusion: the strongest improvement is not “work harder” but “do not do it at all”
A few taps look trivial.
If those taps happen every single time, they are a process.
And if AI can connect directly to the destination, deleting the process is stronger than performing it faster.
The whole change fits into two lines:
Before: Create the article, then a human carries it into GitHub.
Now: Request the article, and saving plus verification finish automatically.
First we saved three taps.
Then Three-Tap Guy lost his job.
Then, carried away by momentum, we fired the CEO too.
Process improvement is terrifying.
Clicks deserve no mercy.
