Don’t become irrelevant - that’s my strategy. I’m not ahead of the crowd on this one, but I’ve seen enough tech hype trains recently (crypto, web3, NFTs for example) to know when the hype has passed and instead we’re replacing good work with a new tool. It feels like all LinkedIn talks about is the efficiency gains, how folks are getting laid off because of AI, and how people are making tons of money from starting new businesses. I focus in on the part of folks loosing their jobs - how can I ensure that doesn’t happen to my team. This has turned into the strategy I am pushing on my team - do it ourselves and become experts or someone does it for us and decides they don’t need us.

I’m internalizing the postings I see on LinkedIn about replacing software developers and people loosing their jobs. People are having their livelihoods being replaced because they aren’t able to augment their day to day work with AI/LLM tooling. I’m distilling a great number of factors (economical policies being a big one) that are impacting folks, but I can only control or have an opinion on so many things. But if my internalization is correct, then I have to do everything possible to get the folks I’ve hired and retained to be as successful as possible with these new tools. Shining a light on ways for them to improve their workflows, helping them develop opinions on where AI is useful and not, and giving them opportunities to show this knowledge is all within my power as a manager.

So my strategy - We do it ourselves and become experts or someone does it for us and decides they don’t need us.

I didn’t use AI for this, but did plug it into a word counter/spell checker. Really don’t like Linkedin