The AI era · career call
01 / 08
One thing I'm increasingly sure of

The most valuable work from now on
is testing + safety

AI will keep getting better at doing things. But who makes sure it's right, low-risk and won't fail?

What will be worth most
isn't production, it's acceptance and safety nets.
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Chapter · 01
02 / 08
Chapter 1

Start with the big trend

As execution gets cheaper, judgement gets pricier.

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More and more work goes to AI
03 / 08

Within 3 years, all of this will run itself

Content
Copy · proposals · scripts
Creating is one prompt away
Production
Images · pages · spreadsheets
Productivity tools get rewritten wholesale
Execution
Workflows · code · automation
Agents move from demo to real workflows
Analysis
Read data · summarise · advise
Decision support reaches all the way down
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Why this is happening
04 / 08

The stronger AI gets, the more judging right from wrong is worth

1
Production gets cheaper, marginal cost near zero
2
Copying gets faster, and errors speed up too
3
AI gets it wrong with a straight face, and humans struggle to notice
4
So the most valuable skill becomes spotting problems
AI makes building it cheap,
but makes getting it right, stable and safe pricier.
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An acceptance Skill you can run tonight
05 / 08

Don't write prompts,
write acceptance checklists

# skills/ai-acceptance/SKILL.md
name: ai-acceptance
description: "Runs AI output through a 4-gate review checklist."

gates:
  - functional:  "Does it actually do what the user asked?"
  - edge_cases: "Empty / long / non-ASCII / concurrent?"
  - safety:     "PII, secrets, destructive ops — all red-flagged?"
  - rollback:   "If this ships and breaks, can we undo in 60s?"
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Relative change in role value
06 / 08

Getting cheaper, getting pricier

Pure execution -65% value Content production -40% value Data analysis Flat Testing / QA +85% value Safety / risk +110% value
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Three things you can do tonight
07 / 08

Stop chasing tools,
train your judgement

Tonight
Write an
acceptance list
Even 5 items will do. Starting beats perfect
This week
Run a
red-team drill
Tell your own agent: try to make it fail
This month
Add a
rollback process
If you can undo in 60 seconds, you can let go
What's truly scarce isn't knowing how to use AI,
it's daring to sign off on AI's results.
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Thanks for reading
08 / 08
Thanks · thanks

If you're thinking about this too, tell me in the comments:
what do you most want AI to do for you? What do you trust it with least?

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