If you can’t tell me what it does, then it doesn’t matter what the fix is, we have a much bigger problem. And that is, we don’t know what it does. Whether it’s you, AI, or Fred at the coffee shop, you need to know what it does. Base metric.
As a leader, if you are not asking yourself this question, you are not leading your team into the next era. Are they coding with it? Are they writing manuals? Are they letting it work for them? Is the team sharing skills? Are we all using different back-ends? You don’t have to have all the answers, but you need to be asking all the questions; someone else will, and they’ll be the ones people will…
If you’re not considering this as part of the product, you’re moving backward. The massive pivot that is AI is reshaping every aspect of what we do. This pivot feels like it is happening overnight, but it will be longer. It only feels shorter because we are all going through it, whereas generally, one industry goes through a pivotal change at a time, but now it’s everyone. And if you haven’t felt it yet, that’s…
Our expertise is currently in an evolutionary stage of change. You might have titles and awards that you have earned, but does AI answer everything you do better? It’s a hard pill to swallow, but yes, it truly might – but it hasn’t seen or done what you have done. So the next question becomes – what is your value to evolve to in this area of growth and development? What your expertise is in…
I see lots of articles on how many tokens you are using to accomplish your task. The tradeoff is whether you are learning at the same time that your token use is skyrocketing. If you are beautiful, if not, I have questions. Don’t give up your learning for a few token counts – iterate, research, read, improve – those are tokens we’ve been consuming all along.