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.
A developer's post about losing his coding skills after two years of AI-assisted work hit 541 points on Hacker News. The pattern he described isn't a developer problem. It's a professional skills problem — and there's a three-question test for catching it before it catches you.
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Your 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.
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OpenAI 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.
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AI is strongest on the preparation around teaching and weakest at the judgement inside it. Here's where the line sits, and how to build materials that stay reusable instead of regenerating them every term.
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OpenAI replaced ChatGPT's default model on May 5. It's more accurate and gives 30% shorter answers. That's only useful if your prompts give it enough to work with.
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Telus 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.
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Work IQ creates stateful agents by combining your M365 data, Active Directory, and communication history. Before your IT team deploys it, you should know what those agents can see and do on your behalf.
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Anthropic'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.
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Figures are the highest-risk thing AI produces and the thing people check least, because a number looks like a fact. Four checks that take under a minute each, and the one that catches the most.
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