TL; DR: AI Micromanagement Has Its Merits
The benefits of AI micromanagement show up when you feed ChatGPT 5 progressively more context about your actual situation. I tested five prompts for a retrospective design: from zero context to full team background with extended reasoning time. Case 1 produced generic “Scrum Oscars” nonsense. Case 5 delivered sophisticated root-cause analysis targeting chronic top-down thrash, dependency gridlock, and psychological safety erosion.
The difference? Strategic context curation. More context created better solutions, but only when that context was relevant and structured.