AI exposes your bullshit

AI exposes your bullshit.

Before, if you were a subpar employee, low rated, junior, non skilled, you could easily hide the fact that you were not skilled.

You could hide behind other people’s work.

You could show up to meetings while other people made up for your lack of skill, talent, capacity, or competence.

You could survive because someone else was always absorbing the cost of your weakness.

Now, in organizations where everybody has to move fast, it is just so hard to bullshit your way through work again.

You cannot bullshit your way out of an outcome because everyone already has a lot on their plate. They do not have time to keep looking over your work.

So you go to ChatGPT or Claude.

You tell it what you think makes sense.

It gives you an output.

Then everybody on your team takes that output and brings it into their own stream of work.

Until everyone starts having the same conversation:

At what point did the results we were supposed to deliver as a team regress?

And it all points to one place.

It points to your output.

It was your output that created the regression.

It was the codebase you pushed.

It was the PR that introduced those regressions.

It was the document you shared.

It was the presentation.

It was the brief.

The concept note.

The deck.

The thing you brought into the room because AI told you, “yes, this is correct.”

But you needed taste.

You needed judgment.

You needed the ability to discern what was behind the subtext.

Because in business today, a simple statement like, “you can fill this part for me,” can mean more than what is written on the surface.

It can mean, “use your judgment here.”

It can mean, “you should already know what matters.”

It can mean, “this part connects to something we discussed three weeks ago.”

It can mean, “do not just complete the sentence, understand the context.”

So when your team is working on a test, a project, an idea, or an issue is flagged, you are not just supposed to read the main text.

You are supposed to consider what is behind the text.

Pattern recognition tells you that when someone says this, this is actually what it means in production.

But you did not have that.

So you took what Claude gave you, brought it back, and now everyone can literally see how incompetent you are.

Everyone can see how underskilled you are.

And the worst part is this:

If you are not doing anything to improve, and you think AI is making you deliver work faster, your name is probably next in line for elimination.

Everyone is going to be quiet about it.

But they all know it is going to happen.

And when it happens, it will not be a surprise to anybody.

Now, that is the brutal part.

But the more useful question is this:

What does the remedy look like?

Because while incompetence is no longer an option, one of the other aspects of working like this today is that it is also hard to improve.

No one has time to carry an apprentice along.

No one has time to teach anybody anything.

Everybody is moving fast across all workspaces.

So what does it look like for someone who actually wants to learn?

What does it look like for someone who wants to pick up their slack in the age of AI?

How do you build experience and expertise without relying on slop?

Especially when almost everything available to help you learn today also feels like slop.

That is the real challenge.

AI can help you move faster.

But if you do not have taste, context, judgment, and pattern recognition, it will not make you better.

It will only make your gaps more visible.

And at work, in the age of AI, visibility is not always a gift.

That is the new condition of AI native work.

Everything moves faster. Everything is seen sooner. Everyone’s output is exposed to everyone else, almost in real time.

In that kind of environment, being visible only rewards you if there is something worth seeing.

If you are competent, the speed carries you. The exposure works in your favor. Your judgment compounds in full view of the room.

But if you are not, the same system that makes good work visible makes your gaps visible too.

And it does it just as fast.