Does your experience still show up in AI-assisted work?

Published 8 days ago • 1 min read

Episode 440: The J Factor: Bringing Your Experience to Generative AI

Hello Reader,

The next episode of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro podcast has been released!

Jay used to spend two weeks turning a customer workshop into a deliverable. Now a transcript and a Copilot Cowork skill get him there in under 45 minutes. So where does twenty-five years of experience fit when the AI does the writing?

In Episode 440, recorded live at the North American Cloud and Collaboration Summit in Branson, Ben sits down with Jay Leask of Microsoft and Microsoft MVP Norm Young. Norm takes over the questions, and what starts as "what did your job look like before generative AI?" turns into one of the more honest conversations we have had about where IT work is heading.

Faster, not exponentially faster. Ben still reads AI output line by line, and checks generated PowerShell for anything that isn’t a Get before running it.
The J factor. A skill is your documented process, which is why the person with the experience is the one who can build a good one.
Some of the fun is going away. Hand-built scripts and audit log digging are shrinking, and billing for work that now takes 30 minutes instead of eight hours is getting harder.
Not everyone can reskill. A new fulfillment center bigger than one that employs 6,000 people is being built to run with 1,000, and “learn something new” isn’t an answer for everyone.
Plateau or regression? If models start training on AI-generated content, does human-written content become the scarce resource?

Listen to the full episode: https://www.msclouditpropodcast.com/episode440/

Thanks,

Ben

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