Preparing to be toast

If your employer has banned the use of AI, you should quit and find a company that is already going through an AI transformation.”

If your team is too busy doing their new job to experiment with AI, you’re preparing them to be replaced. Maybe you’re okay with this, but hopefully you’re not, because it should weigh heavily on you if you truly care about your team.

Sometime in the next six months, you’re going to have to start having some hard conversations about moving people on from your company. You should already be putting your employees on a vitality curve and ranking them. Naturally, competent employees who have been using AI will be ahead of competent engineers who haven’t.

🔗 if your team is too busy doing their ‘normal job’ to experiment with AI, you’re preparing them to be replaced