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points by Leynos 3 days ago | 0 comments

"AI skills" are the same skills we always needed:

- Learning in a self-directed way that aligns with the needs of your role and where it is going

- Clear communication, the ability to edit and know how to say what is important

- Forming and testing hypotheses

- Evaluating and testing tools and work product, and being able to recognize and rectify deviations

- Delegating, setting constraints, rubrics and escalation criteria

- Having a clear definition of done and being able to stick with it

- Understanding business domains and modelling them usefully

- Collaborating with others, communicating your needs and capabilities clearly, eliciting the needs and capabilities of others, synthesizing conflicting needs and aligning compounding capabilities

The adoption of genAI and agentic tooling really just serves to make all of these more important.

[–] bemtevi 3 days ago

I basically agree with you, even though I think AI is a bad thing. But I think your list should be qualified. AI itself modifies expectations and changes the nature of the game, so that people care less about rigor in the way you described. With AI, since it's so easy to make new apps, people will care less about whether an app is correct or well-defined. And over time our expectations will change and our reactions will be gamed so that the person who makes the app the quickest with the most flash will win over those who put more care into things.

There's always been a tension between rigour and marketing of course but AI is a new order of magnitude shift towards the marketing and hype side of things. So I think while your skills are still needed, they will be overshadowed by a new set of skills to manipulate the audience or userbase to use the suboptimal more than was possible before.