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The M-CaReM-AI Method: Defining Work for AI / Unit 6   MCM 150 review, 2 to 3 minutes

A Pack Change, Logged

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The idea

A worked example, constructed for this course, updates the Fine Calculation Record's Gold Pack with AI help, and checks the change log both ways.

In practice

The funding council announces that fines on children's cards will be waived from the next quarter. The steward gives an AI tool the current Gold Pack, the council's notice and the decision that waived fines must still be recorded, at zero, with a reason. She asks the tool to update the Pack and log every change. The tool returns a new version with three logged changes. A new reason code, council waiver, is added. A rule says the amount is zero for members under the junior age. And the effective date of the change is recorded. The steward checks each logged change against the notice, and all three are correct. Then she checks the other direction, comparing the old and new Pack section by section. She finds a fourth change that the log does not mention. In the obligations section, the tool has shortened the retention period for fine records from seven years to three, apparently copying a figure from a general template. Nobody asked for it, and the council requires the longer period. She restores it, records in the log that an unrequested change was found and reversed, and approves version two point three.

Where people slip

Every logged change was right, and the one dangerous change was unlogged. Had the steward checked only the log, a Gold Pack would have quietly halved its own retention rule. The two-way check is the step that makes AI-assisted maintenance safe for Gold things, and it took her ten minutes against a Pack she already knew well.

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