# How should humans work with AI ![[Orchetrating AI workflow.png]] ## The Great Inversion For years, the dream was of an AI that would assist us—a clever intern fetching facts, a tireless assistant polishing our drafts. We saw ourselves at the center, with technology radiating outwards as a set of tools to help us do the work. That model is now obsolete. Using AI as a mere assistant is like owning a Formula 1 car and only using it to drive to the corner store. The effective way to work now is not to ask, "How can AI help me?" but to ask, "How can I help AI?" This is what I call "The Great Inversion" ## From Executor to Director **Execution is becoming a commodity.** The ability to write a thousand words of clean prose, generate a dozen variations of a design, or sift through gigabytes of market data is rapidly approaching zero cost. An AI can do this, and will soon do it better, faster, and cheaper than any human. To compete on the plane of pure execution is to lose. So where does that leave us? It leaves us as the architects, not the builders. It leaves us as desginers and directors, nor executors. A film director doesn’t act, operate the camera, or edit the sound. A director’s job is to have taste, to provide a clear vision, and to orchestrate a vast number of specialists to realize that vision. ## [[Management as a computer skill]] > "I’m not just doing tasks anymore, I’m designing the systems that do the tasks." This is our new work. Management is becoming a core computer skill. Not the management of people, with their emotions and politics, but the management of processes. The valuable skill is orchestration: designing a workflow of agents, knowing which problems to assign to which, and how they should interact. It’s knowing what to delegate to silicon and what to reserve for the human mind. The person who can define a problem with precision, who can provide the AI with the perfect context, and who can judge the quality of the output with ruthless discernment, is the one who holds the leverage. The prize is no longer for being the best player in the orchestra who can use their instrument the best -- but for being the conductor that direct the entire piece of music. ![[Management as a computer skill.png]]