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AI Won’t Kill Your Career — Ignoring These 5 Skills Will

Five human skills that AI amplifies—not replaces—and specific portfolio moves to grow them.

Updated October 11, 2025 ·

Five skills that compound with AI

  1. Problem framing and decision quality
  2. Communication and narrative design
  3. Collaboration and influence
  4. Creativity and experimentation
  5. Resilience and adaptability

How to build them

  1. Publish decision logs and postmortems highlighting trade‑offs.
  2. Tell your work: case studies with context → decisions → outcomes.
  3. Lead a cross‑team initiative; document alignment and results.
  4. Run weekly experiments; measure learning speed and impact.
  5. Design constraints sprints to build adaptability under pressure.