"AI skills" are the same skills we always needed:
- Learning in a self-directed way that aligns with the needs of your role and where it is going
- Clear communication, the ability to edit and know how to say what is important
- Forming and testing hypotheses
- Evaluating and testing tools and work product, and being able to recognize and rectify deviations
- Delegating, setting constraints, rubrics and escalation criteria
- Having a clear definition of done and being able to stick with it
- Understanding business domains and modelling them usefully
- Collaborating with others, communicating your needs and capabilities clearly, eliciting the needs and capabilities of others, synthesizing conflicting needs and aligning compounding capabilities
The adoption of genAI and agentic tooling really just serves to make all of these more important.
- Learning in a self-directed way that aligns with the needs of your role and where it is going
- Clear communication, the ability to edit and know how to say what is important
- Forming and testing hypotheses
- Evaluating and testing tools and work product, and being able to recognize and rectify deviations
- Delegating, setting constraints, rubrics and escalation criteria
- Having a clear definition of done and being able to stick with it
- Understanding business domains and modelling them usefully
- Collaborating with others, communicating your needs and capabilities clearly, eliciting the needs and capabilities of others, synthesizing conflicting needs and aligning compounding capabilities
The adoption of genAI and agentic tooling really just serves to make all of these more important.