When clients ask if AI can do it cheaper
The question stings the first time you hear it. But it's a fair one, and if you can't answer it, the market will answer it for you. Here's how I learned to respond.
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Field notes from the AI wave
Adaptation strategies, tech worth knowing about, and true stories from a career designer (now product manager) figuring out the next wave in public.
AI didn't take my job. It took my busywork
Two years of using AI daily at work, honestly audited: the tasks it swallowed, the tasks it can't touch, and why 'human in the loop' isn't a slogan. It's the job.
read it →This isn't my first extinction event
I installed a game off 26 floppy disks. I heard the dial-up scream. I watched Flash die and Figma eat XD. AI is the biggest wave yet, but the survival pattern hasn't changed.
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New AI tools launch weekly and most will be gone by Christmas. These four skills are the grammar underneath all of them. Learn these and every new tool is a weekend, not a crisis.
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