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## Segment 2 — futures

## Article 84 — a084

# Chengwei Liu

## Chengwei Liu

**Role in source:** co-author of the Harvard Business Review article *Big Tech's Looming Capability Crisis* (June 2026), written with [[entity-bal-zs-kov-cs|Balázs Kovács]]. A management scholar advancing the article's economics-driven argument about AI, apprenticeship, and accountable judgment.

### Attributed contributions in this vault
As co-author, Liu is a source of the article's full argument, including:
- The [[concept-capability-debt-d2|capability debt]] and [[concept-judgment-debt|judgment debt]] framing (see [[quote-two-debts]])
- The [[concept-deliberate-inefficiency|deliberate inefficiency]] thesis (see [[quote-deliberate-inefficiency]])
- The [[framework-ai-accountability|AI accountability framework]]
- The quotes [[quote-sign-off-product]] and [[quote-code-vs-engineering]]