If you have the will, you’ll have the skill

Most teams are still using AI the same way: ask ChatGPT, get an answer, share it around, repeat. It’s a loop.

I did the same for over a year, but AI has become a lot more than that.

Early this year, something changed how I work, and how ourteam (an AI recruiting platform focused on automating candidate screening and evaluation) works, entirely.

I started my career 16 years ago in management consulting. My first task was creating PowerPoint slides. I remember drawing a line that was always bent. Then, my senior taught me a keyboard shortcut (holding the Shift button when dragging the mouse). That became my first ‘skill’ at work.

Today, that word rings very differently.

A ‘skill’ in AI is a text file (commonly known as a markdown file). It contains a set of plain-text instructions that tell the AI what to do consistently every time. It can be built in minutes. It can learn and repeat what takes months and years.

I grew up with the rise of the internet, mobile and cloud. I believe those were critical shifts to get us to where we are today. Yet, this feels different.

AI isn’t just a thinking partner anymore; it’s becoming the ‘system’ teams actually run on.

I have zero technical background, I can’t code, but lately I’ve been managing a team of AI agents that handle our daily work and build our software.

These days, ourteam and I are operate with AI agents daily. These agents now catch errors, review work, and ship updates on their own. The team just directs. If you told me this a year ago, I wouldn’t have believed you.

(An ‘AI agent’ is an AI-powered entity that can take actions on its own. It reads files, writes code, sends emails, and runs tests. You give it a goal, and it figures out the steps.)

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Which brings me to the point of intelligence.

In knowledge work, we tend to associate intelligence with execution: knowing how to draw that straight line on PowerPoint, making charts and models on Excel, designing prototypes, programming software, and more.

Those were skills we took months and years to learn. Today, you can create a skill in 5 minutes.

Most of the intelligence work today can be done faster, cheaper and often better by AI systems. If your use of AI is still just prompting ChatGPT back and forth, there’s actually a lot more out there.

AI models and applications have become so good that real, serious work can be done reliably and consistently. You give it an outcome, and it handles the steps.

That’s the shift most people are underestimating.

Now, the hardest part isn’t handing over execution to AI. It’s everything that comes before and after.

Judgement. Taste. Standards.

Knowing what’s good or bad. What feels right. What should be shipped and what shouldn’t. Those decisions are still on us.

Spending time to think and write, I believe, is one of the most underrated practices left.

I started as a tech enthusiast. Today, I’m a heavy Claude user (Claude-pilled as they say).

From simple chat to using it as a coworker. Now, I’m deep into Claude Code, building and shipping things through what people call “vibe coding”. (And yes, I cancelled my ChatGPT subscription, but that’s a separate story.)

The strange part is this: the more you learn, the more you work.

AI expands what’s possible, so you end up doing more. Anyone actively building with it will tell you the same.

Also Read: AI agents didn’t change how I write, they changed when I could start publishing

On X, there’s a fast-moving community debating AI models, workflows, and sharing best practices: Claude Code vs Codex, agent workflows, open-source tools like OpenClaw.

We used to wait excitedly for Apple Keynote once a year. Now, exciting breakthroughs happen every few days.

Inside ourteam, we’re constantly learning and applying new concepts: agent teams, auto-research, self-healing systems, internal LLM wikis, second brains. These aren’t just “new features”; they add up to a fundamentally different way of working.

We used to identify ourselves singularly: an engineer, a salesperson, a product manager, a customer service manager. What if today we can be all that and more? It is no longer an ‘if’, but ‘when’.

If you have the will, you’ll have the skill.

I was taught to unlearn and relearn. And here I am. It feels weird at times, but it’s super exciting.

Hopefully, this inspires you too.

This article was first published here.

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