I've started to tell people that I am hiring AI to replace me. Or at least part of me. The parts I don't want to do, and which can be done better than I can. Leaving me with more time and energy to work on other things that generate income and make me happy. I think that many professionals will work this way in the future.
This is such a poignant piece, William. For me this phrase just stands out and encapsulates what you're trying to say really aptly, "AI is replacing inefficient systems that relied on humans to hold them together." For sure, it is, and we can't take anything for granted. Thank you for emphasizing the agency we all need for redesigning our jobs.
I do think that if AI really was intelligent it would switch itself off.
I've started to tell people that I am hiring AI to replace me. Or at least part of me. The parts I don't want to do, and which can be done better than I can. Leaving me with more time and energy to work on other things that generate income and make me happy. I think that many professionals will work this way in the future.
This is such a poignant piece, William. For me this phrase just stands out and encapsulates what you're trying to say really aptly, "AI is replacing inefficient systems that relied on humans to hold them together." For sure, it is, and we can't take anything for granted. Thank you for emphasizing the agency we all need for redesigning our jobs.
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Don’t think AI will be static either. It is not outside the realm of possibility that all jobs could be challenged, including differentiated ones.
“AI isn’t optimizing. It’s interrogating.” cloud not have said it better
I’ve been writing about that same shift, but from inside the system.
When AI unlocked my ability to express, synthesize, and contribute at a completely different level… the real problem wasn’t the tech.
It was the rigid molds around me, job descriptions, expectations, org structures, that couldn’t adapt fast enough to what was emerging.
I’ve called AI a depth machine, not a speed one, because what it surfaces isn’t output. It’s signal.
And when that signal meets old roles, something cracks.
I wrote about this in "When Your People Become Clay, Don’t Keep the Old Molds."
It’s the same story you’re naming, just lived through a platform org, and reshaped from the inside out.