Think and Act: What Skill Wins the Artificial Intelligence Era

Last year the tech industry lost more than 100,000 jobs to artificial intelligence. Founders replaced employees with AI automation and agents.

Some companies are now paying tens of thousands per employee in Claude and GPT fees — to boost productivity, not headcount.

What separates the employee who kept their job from the one who lost it?

Skill. Grit. Luck. Connections. Mastery.

If I had to keep the top 1–10% of a team, I'd look at one thing: rate of application.

How fast can you go from idea to execution? How quickly can you integrate a new tool into existing processes?

Large language models are trained on data from the internet — code, videos, posts, documentation. AI assistance gives you access to an abundant amount of information.

An abundant amount of information requires an abundant amount of action.

You need to become a combination of a fast learner and a fast practitioner. If you can acquire skills quickly and act on them, it is almost impossible to lose a job.