A Businessman's View

Every week, there’s a new headline suggesting that AI is about to make large portions of the workforce obsolete. Development cycles are collapsing. Models are writing code. Systems are improving themselves. It’s not unreasonable to ask whether the role of the human professional is shrinking. But that framing misses something important. AI is not simply reducing labor costs - it is raising expectations. And when expectations rise, the need for human judgment doesn’t disappear. It shifts. Acceleration Without Elimination Recently, while preparing a business demo, I leaned heavily on AI to troubleshoot and refine parts of the workflow. It generated SQL, suggested configuration changes, and dramatically accelerated the iteration cycle. But it also produced malformed SQL queries and confidently recommended an incorrect fix for a configuration issue. Each time, the system moved me forward faster, but it didn’t actually solve the problem. I still had to diagnose the root cause, constrain th...