AI won’t replace you.
A person who uses AI will.
I spent the weekend going through Nate Herk’s AIS+ guide on future-proofing your career with AI.
Six skills stood out. Not tools. Not prompts. Skills.
Save this. Build one this week.
1. Become the AI Person — relative, not absolute. You don’t need to outpace the frontier. You need to outpace the room. IBM’s 2026 CEO study: 85% of CEOs say all functional leaders must become tech experts in their domain. The Excel lesson still applies — early adopters were simply faster. AI is bigger.
2. Taste & Judgment — AI is getting good enough that people stopped reviewing the output. Don’t be that person. Your name is on whatever you ship. Study the best work in your field. Save examples you admire. Feed every correction back into the AI so it learns your taste.
3. Become a Context Engineer — Andrej Karpathy called it “the delicate art and science of filling the context window with just the right information.” Stop opening blank chats. Spin up a Claude project, load your product, calendar, best work, worst work. Onboard the AI like a new hire — because that’s exactly what it is.
4. Iteration Speed — the most underrated skill in AI. Every loop is more data. Shortcuts, voice input, ugly prototypes. And tie every automation to ONE business metric up front — tickets resolved per day, qualified appointments per week, refund rate down by X. No metric = no done.
5. Build Your Own Jarvis — automate the predictable triggers so the system fires while you’re in a meeting or asleep. The elite move is knowing when NOT to use AI: vending machine (deterministic if-this-then-that) vs slot machine (nondeterministic agent). Default to the simplest thing that works.
6. Build Your Own Unemployment Insurance — job-stack around one passion: course, niche newsletter, micro-SaaS, consulting. Same domain, different shapes. Build in public so you’re discoverable in an AI-search world. Pick one stream, go hard until it has momentum, then branch. Caveats: check non-competes, disclose side work, don’t burn the day job.
Which one are you starting with?
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