tag · 7 essays
All essays tagged future-of-work.
In May I named the argument underneath a year of writing. Five months later, I'd keep the argument and narrow several claims. Here is what changed, what survived, and what I still can't prove.
★Entry-level work was never just cheap execution. It was the training system that produced the people capable of judging what the machines build.
★Most AI reorgs open with a headcount model. The better sequence redesigns workflows, decision rights, ownership, and evaluation loops first, then lets the org chart follow the work it is meant to describe.
A year of writing, one argument, and a working theory of where software is going
★Jasmine Sun argues AI politics has a new meta, and the warning shots have started. Reading her piece as an engineering leader, here is what the narrative failure looks like from inside a large team, why sociopolitical alignment is our job, and what each of us owes our own career in a market this fast.
Anthropic's new design tool does not threaten senior designers. It threatens the apprenticeship that made them senior.
The AI-and-jobs conversation gets framed as either inevitability or competition. Both frames are incomplete, and both conveniently align with the interests of the companies selling the technology. A third reading of what's actually happening to work.