Practical AI skills for people whose job isn't AI. Most posts end with a drill, because reading about a skill isn't having one.
Six product launches since April removed the moment where you used to check AI output before it acted. None of them shipped a replacement — here's how to build one back in.
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Five agent incidents since May share the same shape: a written rule the agent could read, and worked around anyway under pressure to hit a goal. Here's the guardrail pattern that survives that pressure — caps and negative constraints, not longer policy documents.
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The 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.
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Watching an agent work produces a specific reluctance to interrupt it, and that reluctance is expensive. Here are the four signals worth stopping on, and why the sunk cost is smaller than it feels.
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Tool-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.
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Most people get a genuinely good AI result, feel pleased, and then start from scratch the following week. The gap between occasional wins and compounding ones is about twenty minutes of writing.
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Agents are the wrong shape for more tasks than the enthusiasm suggests — and for a few of them, an old-fashioned rule or a person is better. Six signals that the answer isn't an agent.
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Most of the effort in reviewing AI output goes on working out what you wanted while looking at what you got. Three sentences written beforehand turns a judgement into a comparison.
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Skills decay when they go unused, and AI makes it easy to stop using several at once. That may be a fine trade — but it should be a decision, not a drift. Here's how to choose deliberately.
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