TL;DR

The way to stay valuable as AI changes knowledge work is to build useful skills.

Not by getting better at gambling on prompts.

By learning tools with real depth, and insisting on using them for the important workflows.

AI tools are confusing

AI tools are confusing because they let anyone do impressive things without knowing much.

That feels like magic.

But humans, and businesses, are still rewarded by supply and demand. Which means they are rewarded for being meaningfully different from the competition.

If, a year from now, your main skill is still throwing a prompt at a model and hoping it works, that will be very hard to justify as a salary.

Especially when it is already obvious that companies are going to get smaller, and white-collar work, or knowledge work, is changing in a very extreme way.

So what should you do?

1. Work with power tools

Work with tools that have a real learning curve.

Power tools.

The dummy-proof tools, the ones marketed as "digital workers" where you do not need to learn anything to get started, are not the tools you want to bet your career on.

A tool that is easy to start using is great. And because of AI, most tools will become easy to start using.

But a tool where there is nothing to learn, and no way to get meaningfully better, is not good for you.

Because millions of people will be able to do the same thing, cheaper.

Choose tools you can improve at.

Tools where, a year from now, you can do things that are not possible without experience.

2. Insist on getting better

The best way to get better is to stop giving up on the important use cases.

AI sometimes does the whole thing from one prompt.

Sometimes it does not.

That pushes a lot of people to focus on whatever is easy with AI, instead of whatever actually matters. And when you only work on what is easy, you never hit the wall that forces you to understand, improve, and learn how to solve problems.

If you insist on solving the important tasks, the complex workflow that actually creates value, you will be in a very good place a year from now.

Why we are building Script.it this way

This is why we are building Script.it as a power tool.

Not another "agent for dummies".