The secret to mastering AI is getting the division of labor right

The promise of AI was always that it would handle certain kinds of work so we could focus on others. It was going to free our time, reduce friction, and let us concentrate on what requires human judgment and creativity. That promise assumed we would divide the labor wisely. That we would hand off the operational drag - the scheduling, formatting, and summarizing that eats the day before we’ve had a chance to think. We would keep the cognitive friction - the hard work of wrestling with ambiguity, forming a point of view, and figuring out the right approach.