The hard part isn’t learning the finer points of prompt engineering, how to set up and use agents, or how to connect the right systems for necessary context.

The hard part is choosing when using AI is appropriate and when it isn’t. Choosing which output is acceptable and which isn’t. Choosing what to work on with this new tool at your disposal. Choosing when you need to lean in to doing things the slow, hard, old fashioned way or the new, fast, easy way. Choosing, then owning your decision.

In short, the hard part is discernment. It always has been. AI has only changed the calculus.

We are all figuring this out while the boat sails across the open ocean, picking up speed.