Writing
On AI in traditional industries. On tasks as the atomic unit of work. On the humans who make it real.
I used to make a deck in four hours. Now Claude does it in five minutes. The question is what to do with the other three hours and fifty-five minutes. Most people get it wrong.
Also in The Indian Express ↗Every task has an input, a transformation, and an output. It's the same shift software made from monoliths to microservices - now applied to business operations. Most organizations aren't ready.
We're not moving toward humans replaced by agents. We're moving toward humans with agents working alongside other humans with agents. And yes, their agents might talk to each other.
Mobile disrupted distribution. AI disrupts production itself. In 2003, Uber and Airbnb didn't exist. We're at that same inflection point - and major SaaS companies are already down 30-50%.
Your company's AI strategy is three executives who went to a conference and came back bewildered. The enterprise will move cautiously. People who quietly build fluency before the policies arrive will look like magicians.
AI is like the world's smartest person, but with amnesia all the time. Every interaction is a first date, but we're asking it to plan our wedding.
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