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Capture your judgment once, not every time

AI models know a lot. They don't know how you do your job. Martin Hall on the actual opportunity to stop re-explaining what you already know.

Martin HallMartin Hall·3 min read

AI models know a lot. But they don't know how you do your job. They don't know the workflows, the processes, or the specific tasks required.

But you do. That's your human expertise and judgment. And you apply that to the same tasks, again and again.

That repetition is the opportunity we are focused on. It's the part you could offload, not by hoping the model guesses your way of working, but by describing it, so it works that way every time, instead of asking you to re-supply it in every new multi-turn chat.

Satya Nadella made the point a couple of weeks ago: the companies that win with AI won't be the ones that pick the best model. They'll be the ones that capture their people's judgment into systems that get better every time they run. The general knowledge is a commodity; your human judgment is the edge.

Almost no one has built this yet. 92% of companies are increasing AI spend, but only 1% say it's built into how work gets done (McKinsey).

Cory Doctorow's new book differentiates between two kinds of worker: the centaur, who the machine works for, and the reverse-centaur, who ends up working for the machine. Re-supplying your judgment to a blank chat all day is the reverse-centaur's life. Describing it once, so the work runs your way, is how you stay the centaur.

That's what we're building at skillyo.ai: your judgment, captured once, working for you every time.

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