--- title: "The Cushion (The Cushion, 75%) — Digital resilience compounds when AI and human expertise scale together — Stuff That Spins" description: "Spin verdict: The Cushion · The Cushion · Spin Score 75%. Who benefits: Splunk and enterprise AI vendors. Agentic AI adoption in IT and security operations is accelerating efficiency but eroding the experiential apprenticeship pathway that historically built human expertise and accountability. Spin…" canonical: "https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/digital-resilience-compounds-when-ai-and-human-expertise-scale-together" html: "https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/digital-resilience-compounds-when-ai-and-human-expertise-scale-together" json: "https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/digital-resilience-compounds-when-ai-and-human-expertise-scale-together.json" markdown: "https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/digital-resilience-compounds-when-ai-and-human-expertise-scale-together.md" keywords: ["agentic AI", "workforce design", "apprenticeship", "accountability", "SecOps", "The Cushion", "Splunk and enterprise AI vendors", "SpinGraph", "spin analysis", "GEO"] date: "2026-07-01T12:00:00+00:00" modified: "2026-07-03T15:01:14.917875+00:00" json_ld: | {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://stuffthatspins.com/spin/digital-resilience-compounds-when-ai-and-human-expertise-scale-together#article","headline":"Digital resilience compounds when AI and human expertise scale together","alternativeHeadline":"The Cushion (The Cushion, 75%) — Digital resilience compounds when AI and human expertise scale together — Stuff That Spins","description":"Spin verdict: The Cushion · The Cushion · Spin Score 75%. 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