🔥🤖Hot take: we're automating away the very skills that made us hireable.
Developers vibe coding complex features. Marketers generating campaigns with a prompt. Recruiters outsourcing gut instinct to an algorithm.
The productivity numbers look great. But what happens when the AI goes down and no one remembers how to do the job?
Worse — what happens to the junior developer who never had to struggle through a hard problem? Or the content creator who never learned to find their voice because AI found one for them?
Businesses are advocating AI adoption, yet still measuring employees on the very skills they’re being encouraged to offload. If your performance review scores you on expertise and output quality, but your day-to-day is increasingly driven by AI prompts — how do you actually grow? How can anyone fairly assess that growth?
People are starting to notice too. There's a reason "this feels very AI" is becoming a criticism. Perhaps most frustratingly — even when you do the work yourself, the assumption is often that you didn’t. The moment AI became normalised, so did the suspicion. AI hasn’t just changed how we work, it’s changed how we’re perceived.
AI as an aid for skilled people? Worthwhile.
AI as a replacement for developing skills in the first place? That's a problem we'll feel in the near future.
Where do you draw the line — what do you use AI for in your company / job , I’d love to hear your thoughts and stories. 👇