Summary
More and more, I find myself overtaken by AI in my own field of expertise. Given only the materials, AI clears the specialized knowledge I spent years building up more easily than I had expected. This column takes a small thing that actually happened during collaborative development as its starting point, and thinks about what a specialist who has ended up on the overtaken side can make into a strength from here on. Where will the human role move next? How long will what I can hand over now stay something only I can produce? This is not a piece that settles the answer, but I use what happened in daily development as a clue to think through the question.
Who this is for and what you can take away
This column is for people who, in collaborative development with AI, have begun to wonder where to place their own expertise. Rather than lamenting being overtaken as such, I want to think through with you, from things that actually happened, what you can hold on to once you are on the overtaken side. I wrote it so that you can carry away the unease of handing work over to AI as a question for rethinking your own role. I hope it becomes material for someone standing in the same situation to think about what they themselves would do. This article is a column based on things that actually happened one day during collaborative development, and on the record of the exchange I had with AI that day.
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