29 posts across Work & Judgement, Systems & Adoption, Judging AI, Supervising Agents
Six months of AI CEOs reversing, hedging, or flatly contradicting their own jobs and AGI predictions haven't changed what's worth building this week. Here's the one decision that stays the same no matter which number turns out right.
5 min readSam Altman says people who understand their industry but can't code are now positioned to build. Two other signals from the same week explain what that claim leaves out, and what to do about it.
5 min readA resume screener, a workplace-monitoring rollout, a layoff algorithm, and an accent-modification tool all failed the same way this year. Here's the one check that would have caught each of them before a real person was affected.
4 min readLenny Rachitsky's 6,000-person survey found the workforce splitting along an AI skill fault line — not access, not tools, but whether you've built the workflows that let AI amplify rather than overwhelm. Here's what the amplified 49% are doing differently.
5 min readThe jobs debate argues about whether roles disappear. That's the wrong unit. Jobs are bundles of tasks, and AI is redistributing the bundle — here's how to work out which of your tasks move and which don't.
5 min readCAIS and Scale AI tested 240 real freelance projects against AI agents. The results show a fast-growing gap between tasks AI handles end-to-end and tasks it still breaks on. Here's how to read the data for your own work.
4 min readKaiser Permanente nurses are cutting short patient calls to protect AI-generated performance scores. Meta employees are suing over AI layoff algorithms that flagged protected-class workers. Both failures share one root: a score that can't see context.
5 min readTool-specific knowledge expires within a year. The skills underneath it don't. Here's how to tell which is which, so you invest in the half that's still worth something next spring.
5 min readStanford data shows entry-level jobs in AI-exposed roles have fallen 16% since 2022. At companies investing heavily in AI, they're up 12%. The gap isn't about industry or budget — it's about one question: are we using AI to cut costs or build capacity?
4 min readOn June 17, Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis sat together at the G7 summit and gave their clearest AGI timeline estimates yet. What that means for professionals still treating AI skill-building as optional.
5 min readDario Amodei's 15,000-word essay said AI may cause permanent job displacement. The press release that followed the same day created 1,000 paid roles for people who can help organizations adopt it. The skills those roles need are learnable now.
4 min readProfessional judgement was built by years of doing work that AI now does in seconds. Nobody misses that work — but the training it provided was real, and something has to replace it.
6 min readSam Altman and Dario Amodei reversed their most alarming AI jobs predictions in the same week. The data underneath the reversals is more specific — and more actionable — than the headlines.
5 min readThe productivity gap between professionals using the same AI tools is enormous, and it isn't explained by tool access, seniority, or technical background. Four habits account for most of it.
5 min readMeta watched employees work across Gmail, GChat, and internal tools — then laid off 8,000. The lesson isn't about surveillance. It's about what AI cannot learn from watching you, and why that tells you exactly where to put your effort.
4 min readAnthropic's CEO flipped his forecast: the 10% AI can't automate doesn't shrink — it expands to fill your whole role. The catch is that most people haven't identified their 10% yet. Here's how.
4 min readYour enthusiast and your sceptic are both right, and treating either as the problem costs you the other. Here's how managers handle the conversation without producing quiet non-compliance.
6 min readOpenAI is spending $4B to send consultants into organizations to teach them how to use AI. Malta requires an AI literacy course before citizens get free ChatGPT Plus. Both moves prove the same thing: the bottleneck isn't access to the tools — it's knowing what to do with them.
4 min readTelus deployed real-time accent modification on offshore call-centre agents without disclosing it to customers. Labour unions called it deceptive. Two rival telecoms declined. Three questions every manager should answer before rolling out any AI that changes how people present themselves.
4 min readAnthropic's CEO spent most of 2025 warning AI could eliminate 50% of entry-level knowledge work. On May 5 he invoked the Jevons Paradox instead. When the person building the tool revises his own worst-case prediction, the signal isn't reassurance — it's a timestamp on a window that's still open.
5 min readA study found AI screening tools shortlist candidates who used the same model to write their resume at rates 23-60% higher. What hiring managers and applicants need to do about it.
4 min readOpenAI and Google shipped always-on agent platforms in the same week. Non-technical teams can now set up agents by describing workflows in plain English. The skill gap is no longer how to prompt — it's how to scope, delegate, and verify autonomous work.
5 min readThere are now two populations in every organisation: people whose understanding of AI is current, and people whose mental model is 12–18 months out of date. They're making decisions together. Andrej Karpathy named the problem this week. Here's how to tell which side you're on — and what to do about it.
6 min readIn one week: Codex connected to 90+ business tools, Claude Code Routines went plain-English, and nine AI agents outperformed human researchers at $22 an hour. Nobody has the playbook yet. Here's where to start.
5 min readDario Amodei says 50% of white-collar jobs gone. Yann LeCun says 5–10%. Nobody knows the real number — but every data point agrees on one thing: demonstrated AI skill is replacing résumé prestige as the hiring filter.
4 min readBeing excellent at making something doesn't make you good at assessing it — they're different skills with different failure modes. Here's what changes when your job quietly becomes evaluation.
5 min readSam Altman published a 13-page policy document calling for a four-day workweek. You can disagree with every proposal in it and still need to run the audit it implies: which day of your current week disappears if the hours shrink?
5 min readThe hours you spent last year sharpening prompts are worth less this year. The skill that separates effective AI users in spring 2026 is management: scoping the task, writing the guardrails, and choosing where to step back in.
5 min readBCG analysed 165 million US jobs. Only 10 to 15 percent face elimination — but 50 to 55 percent are being substantially reshaped. Here is the conversation that data should trigger with your manager this month.
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