Split your job into production, judgement and relationships. AI is excellent at one, unreliable at the second, irrelevant to the third. Everything follows from that.
Tier-one triage is being automated, which removes the traditional entry point. What is not being automated, the new speciality AI created, and what to invest in.
AI is most impressive where you cannot check it and least impressive where you can. Six situations where reaching for it costs more than doing the work yourself.
Banning AI tools moves usage onto personal accounts where you have no visibility. What workable governance looks like when you accept it is already happening.
Generated prose is fluent and anonymous because models produce the typical continuation and voice is the atypical one. What preserves a voice in practice.
A working rule from a PhD student: use AI where being wrong is cheap and detectable, avoid it where being wrong is expensive or invisible.
OpenAI’s published tables put Terra and Luna within a tenth of a point on professional agentic work and 48 points apart on long-context recall. Route by failure mode, not difficulty.