Many things change quickly in technology.
One day, your product leads the market. Then the next day, you are playing catch up.
This has been the case with generative artificial intelligence. For a time, it felt like a new model, capability, framework, or some such dropped 3 out of 5 days per week.
Now, we might see a new model released once a month. Other tooling is more frequent, but the pace is slowing.
Now is the perfect time to take a breath. Step back. Refocus. Plan for the next innovation wave.
GenAI’s disruptive shockwave has become less noticeable. It might be due to fatigue. Or it could be people getting used to the “disruption velocity”.
Since I couldn’t remember the velocity formula, I asked my personal AI search engine, Perplexity.
Humans have been adapting to change for thousands of years. Adapting to how genAI will change the way we work, like when automated looms revolutionized the textile industry during the Industrial Revolution.
Even now, LanguageTool is prompting me on my grammar, punctuation, spelling, and syntax. You might laugh at how much correction prompting it does when I intentionally write “genAI”.
I’m writing this post-workshop where I worked with product development professionals. We walked through using genAI to help create product backlog items.
Showing members of my community how to use a tool more effectively reminded me of where people are on this adoption journey. I understand my purpose, doing what I’m doing now.
My purpose is to help people and teams reduce friction in product development.
Part of that happens through learning together. Some of it happens through research and assessing emerging trends. As well, learning new tools and adopting them into my toolbox.
This goes beyond assisting teams and coaching people.
For me, it’s the evolution of what I do for work.
I’m becoming an AI orchestrator.
Will you join me on this journey?