As AI handles more execution work, humans will shift from doing tasks to steering them. You'll set direction, define goals, and interpret data instead of hands-on work. Human intuition about how a product should look and feel still can't be automated.
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the future of work will look more like steering than rowing, in the sense that there will be agents that you'll be able to work with that do a lot of the rowing, and your role increasingly becomes steering the ship in the right direction. And to that point, the steering used to be at the level of, I wrote this line of code, press tab, to, oh wait, now I'm directing something a little bit more comprehensive to maybe the goal level. But ultimately, I think it's still on a person to be able to define, like, which direction are we pointing this in? And given feedback and additional data, where do I want to take this thing next? I think sometimes that we underrate like that power of like intuition, like picturing, hey, I would like the product to look this way. And that I think will always remain an opinion, at least right now, that is like required from a person.