Sandra@sandraleow
for anyone thinking of career building in the AI era:
the T-shaped career is dead, E shaped is the new model
T = broad knowledge + one deep skill
E = broad knowledge + multiple deep skills
AI can beat you in a single domain, but it can't replicate a unique intersection of 3-4 deep skills that you have
instead of framing yourself as just a designer, AI is allowing you to pick up adjacent skills like "someone who also understands fintech, user research AND has shipped 3 compliance products"
not just an "engineer" but "the person who can architect systems, also design the interface and talk to customers"
the more specific your combination, the harder you are to replace
stack skills deliberately, don't go deeper in just one thing, but pick 3-4 adjacent things and make AI be your tutor and synthesize between them
still learn to code, not to be a coder necessarily but to prompt and direct code
the people who thrive will be non-fungible, fluent with AI and focused on judgement
the people who struggle will be generic specialists hoping their titles will be enough