The skill you need most in AI is probably something you thought you didn't have to worry about anymore. The CEO of Shopify Tobias Lütke said this: “Learning to use AI well is an unobvious skill. My…


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The skill you need most in AI is probably something you thought you didn't have to worry about anymore. The CEO of Shopify Tobias Lütke said this: “Learning to use AI well is an unobvious skill. My…
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<start of post> The most dangerous thing you can do in a shifting market is rely on the skills that made you successful in the last one.
I call this the 'Expertise Trap.'
When the underlying technology changes—like the shift from manual coding to agentic workflows—your deep experience actually becomes a filter that prevents you from seeing the new reality.
You try to solve new problems with old tools.
I saw this recently with a senior product team. They were trying to 'prompt engineer' their way out of a structural data problem.
They spent three weeks refining a 2,000-word prompt.
A junior dev with no 'legacy' expertise spent two hours building a simple RAG pipeline that solved the problem permanently.
The senior team was muscling through. The junior dev was rebuilding.
The gap between 'doing the work' and 'directing the work' is widening.
If you're still in the weeds of implementation, you're missing the strategic shift.
Judgment is the new labor.
-- I'm hosting a private briefing on 'Agentic Workflows' this Thursday for our Circle. If you want to see the actual architecture we're using to replace manual prompts, the link is in the bio. <end of post>
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