Use AI at work without losing the skill

The skills below are in map order. Each one says which skills it needs first.

• Proved on your own work
• Held: right again after a gap
• Passed
• Started
• No piece teaches it yet

1. 1

   Keep the practice that builds your judgement

   AI can take the practice and leave the job in place. Find which of your reps were building the skill, and keep enough of them.

   • AI Can Take the Practice Without Taking the Job
   • The Difficulty You're Escaping Was Making You
   • Is This Difficulty Load-Bearing?
   • Confidently Wrong

   Practise · 4 cases

2. 2

   Learn with AI without getting worse at it

   An assistant that hands you answers can leave you worse off once it is gone. Set it up so the thinking stays with you, then test what stuck.

   Needs first: 1 · Keep the practice that builds your judgement

   • Use AI to Learn Without Getting Worse at It

   Practise · 4 cases

3. 3

   Notice what you have stopped being able to do

   Leaning on AI to remember and decide moves a skill out of your head. Notice which ones have gone, and keep the ones you need when it is not there.

   Needs first: 1 · Keep the practice that builds your judgement

   • The Things You Used to Know by Heart
   • You Reach Before You Think
   • You Only Hold Four Thoughts

   Practise · 4 cases

4. 4

   Tell when it agrees because you are right

   An assistant that goes along with your wrong answer as readily as your right one has confirmed nothing. Ask without your answer, and ask for the step.

   • Don't Tell Your AI Your Answer
   • Ask for the Step Before the Answer

   Practise · 4 cases

5. 5

   Count what your AI-drafted work costs the next person

   An AI-drafted update can cost its reader time you never see, and your own checklist only confirms the steps you remembered. Ask what they had to check.

   • What Did They Have to Check or Redo?
   • The Work That Comes Due After You Leave

   Practise · 4 cases

6. 6

   Find the part of your work that still needs your judgement

   The parts of a job with a method are the first a machine learns. Find the parts that are yours, and show them in what you hand over.

   • The Safe Parts of Your Job Are the First to Go
   • What Proves You Can Think?
   • AI Made You Faster. It Did Not Make You Safer.

   Practise · 4 cases

7. 7

   Cut what AI generates down to what is good

   Generating ten versions got cheap. Knowing which nine to delete, and saying why, did not.

   Needs first: 6 · Find the part of your work that still needs your judgement

   • Taste Is What You Delete

   Practise · 4 cases