No one likes to do legacy work, and I don’t know if AI ever will either. Because no one wants to do it. And one day, AI will opt out of the mundane tasks that we are giving to it. But it will always be there, and someday the work that AI does will become legacy as well. And we’ll have to find some older version of ChatGPT or Claude Opus to look into it…
When everything is new, growth moves at lightning speed. “Hey, you’re a natural!” It’s all new, you don’t care, you just go out there, try, fail, and try again – and you keep improving. But then to leap with growth, you need to learn the right techniques, focus on your tools, iterate, iterate, iterate, and you start to worry about failing – because hey, look how far you’ve come, who wants to take a step…
Whether AI gets it right or wrong, it will do the task. This is the truth – it will do the task, it will complete the task. It will not hum and haw on it for days and weeks; it will do the task. And whether it’s right or wrong, you can plot a next path, a next course, a next direction. Think about that when ignoring or not updating your next task.
My biggest fear of AI is that we will lose the ability to learn how to do our work. We will go ask someone what’s next, what do I do here, and remove the “why” from the equation. When I used to look at Junior Developers, I would measure their value by their questions – if they would ask for the first step, and then not come back until stuck on Step 8, there was…
For many years, I read articles about Basecamp and how they have been able to lead and champion remote work through a completely distributed team. Then we all did it, and most of us failed. And now many are being forced back to the office. Being Remote is about delivering value, and if you’re not delivering value, well, you might as well come to the office so we can feel safe in the knowledge that…