Is AI going to take your job (and What To Do About It)?
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Is AI going to take your job? The answer to that is no, but it will change how you work completely, and probably not in the way that you think. Most people aren't really worried about being replaced by AI. They are, however, facing a much different problem.
It's that sinking feeling when you use AI and then share the results, only to get really negative feedback, or it's just really obvious that you're using AI. Your work is bland, generic, and uninspired. This is an insecurity. Everyone is using it, but some people are getting outsized results.
The Real Cost of Chatting
If your primary way of interacting with AI is just a casual chat—tossing a question in and hoping for the best—you're treating a million-dollar tool like a fancy thesaurus. You've already done the training. You've written the detailed prompts. But your results still feel flat and time-wasting.
The problem isn't the AI's intelligence. It's your relationship with the tool.
We need to go back to the idea of tools.
When I was a teenager, I helped my dad frame houses. We were poor, and he would need help from his kids in the summer. We lived in Southern Utah, and it was very, very hot there. I remember, working with just a hammer and nails. It was such hot and difficult work. But I also remember when my dad first got a nail gun. If you don't know what that is, it's just a hammer that's driven by an air compressor. You can just... thud nails into the wood and work so much faster.
You can look at that across almost every part of human experience. The tools we use help us to work so much faster and so much smarter. AI is just another progression of the tools we use. The tool didn't replace the carpenter; it gave them enormous leverage. That's what AI is, too. It's gone from the person who has the strength to use a hammer to the person who can use a nail gun.
From Doer to Director
The truth is, anything that can be trained can now be given to an AI. That messy, ill-defined work is going more and more into AI. The only way to create unshakable career security is to shift your mindset. You have to go from being a doer to the person who directs the doing. You have to think of yourself more as an engineer. This means defining your job with precision.
Your Job is a Recipe
If you want your AI output to stop being "meh" and start making your work and your output just explode, you need to really control the inputs and outputs of AI. Take an item from your job description—creating a report, a proposal, whatever it is. You need to make a list, just basically make a recipe for that particular item.
For decades, companies have been required to meticulously document every critical step of every important job, creating internal manuals and diagrams. It's tedious, but the reason is simple: you can't have a reliable outcome without a defined process. That same principle is the foundation for a repeatable way to work with AI.
The most important part of that recipe is the inputs—what are the things that you need to input into that recipe in order to get the result that you want? If you can’t define those ingredients, you can't figure out how to give the AI the context it needs to win. If it figures it out for you, what's the point of you?
Building a Reliable Approach
A repeatable way to work with AI isn't just one long, complex prompt. It's a simple approach of clear, repeatable steps where you feed the AI your proprietary inputs and guide it to a specific output. This is a deliberate approach that will:
- Define your inputs: Gathering your best past work, brand guidelines, and target outcomes (your "ingredients").
- Define the transformation: Telling the AI exactly how to use those ingredients.
- Define the output: Telling it the precise format you need (a short report, an email, a section of HTML).
Think about how a senior executive views a role. They don't think about tasks; they think about a simple approach that reliably delivers the outcome. Your value isn't in doing the tedious task but in designing a smarter way to get things done.
This approach takes a little longer up front, but it gives you consistent, high-leverage results that secure your reputation. It's the end of "busy work" and the beginning of focusing on the more exciting things of relationships or strategy.
You don't need a thousand new AI tricks. You need one reliable method that works every time.
End Underwhelming AI Results for Good.
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