What Is Actually Happening
Here is something I say to people who ask me about AI and jobs: the basic unit of an applied AI expert is not a particular workflow. It is the business. AI is here to continually help you improve the business so you can serve more customers or serve them better. That reframe changes everything about how you should think about this moment.
What is actually happening is a structural shift in what a team needs to look like. The vision still has to come from somewhere, and I believe it ideally comes from God. It needs to be spiritually grounded, purposeful, mission-driven. Then you need someone who has really good command of AI tools to bring that vision into reality. And you need far fewer people in between than you used to. Teams are leaning out not because work is disappearing, but because the leverage available to small, aligned teams has multiplied dramatically. God typically does not put all the ingredients in a single person, so the partnerships still matter. But the shape of those partnerships is changing.
The business itself is now the most important abstraction. Not any particular tool, not any workflow, not any specific job title. The question is always: what is my business trying to do, and how can AI help it do that better? The companies and individuals who answer that question clearly are going to have an enormous advantage over the ones who are distracted by the noise. And there is a lot of noise right now.
What gives me hope is that this is actually a more human-centric way of operating. When execution becomes cheaper and easier, the things that matter most are judgment, relationships, creativity, and vision. Those are deeply human capacities. The moment we are in is not a threat to those things. It is a clarifying test of how seriously you take them.
Key Takeaway
AI does not replace the business or the vision driving it; it compresses the cost of execution so that small, focused teams can serve customers at a scale that used to require much larger ones.