Nobody talks about what actually keeps a person ahead in an AI world, and it isn’t learning every new tool or prompting better than the next person, it’s the old unglamorous skills, sitting with a hard problem, noticing what’s actually being asked, and caring enough to get the small things right
A 2024 Microsoft and LinkedIn report found 75% of knowledge workers now use AI at work. Adoption nearly doubled in six months. Performance hasn’t doubled. Output has gotten faster. The work itself has gotten flatter. The gap between AI use and actual workplace impact is where the…