Does AI make you worse at your job?
The evidence, the mechanism, and what to do about it. Including primary data from our own pilot, with the findings that went against us.
What is AI skill atrophy, and is it real?
AI Skill Atrophy: What the Evidence Actually Shows
Three randomised studies on whether AI use erodes skill, what they found, and the one variable that decides the outcome. Plus what the evidence does not yet support.
How do I use AI without losing my skills or de-skilling myself?
How to Use AI Without Getting Worse at Your Job
A practical method for keeping your skills while using AI heavily. Sort tasks into five modes, write your answer before you look, and protect a small number of skills on purpose.
Why does AI always agree with me, and how do I get it to push back?
Why Your AI Agrees With You, and What It Costs
AI sycophancy is a training artefact, not a personality. Here is where it comes from, why hallucination and agreeableness are the same failure, and how to get real pushback.
Does AI coaching actually work?
What Happened When 10 Knowledge Workers Used an AI That Coaches Instead of Answering
Results from the TAOS pilot. Every participant said being asked to think first improved their understanding. All of them said they would pay for it. Here is what they actually experienced.
Measuring what AI is doing to your workforce
How can an employer measure whether AI use is building or eroding workforce skills?
How to Tell Whether AI Is Growing or Eroding Your Workforce's Capability
Most AI adoption metrics measure usage, not capability. A practical measurement design for de-skilling risk, what it needs, and why individual surveillance is both wrong and unnecessary.
Why don't AI productivity gains show up in results, and what is AI slop costing us?
The Rework Tax: Why AI Time Savings Do Not Reach the P&L
Around 40% of AI time savings are lost to rework. The cause is not model quality, it is that verification cost scales with output volume and confident wrongness. What to do about it.
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