Ali predicts that in a post-AI world AI will do and administer the work, while people will still be needed to win the work (2026)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: predicted (2026-06-18) · owner: Ali
About: winning the work
| date | event | what | video |
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| 2026-06-18 | predicted | Ali predicts that in a post-AI world doing the work, and increasingly administering it, will become AI's job, while people will always be needed to win the work and make the money. | 3 Skills I'd Learn In the Age of AI 00:01:54 |
What is said about it
7 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2026-06-18 · 3 Skills I'd Learn In the Age of AI — Ali says any job has three prongs: making the money, doing the work, and operating or admin; for most people their job is in doing the work or in admin. — 00:01:08
- 2026-06-18 · 3 Skills I'd Learn In the Age of AI — recommendation: Ali's second skill for a post-AI world is to get as close to revenue generation as possible: the closer you are, the more likely you are to thrive, even if you think of sales and marketing as sleazy. — 00:03:36
- 2026-06-18 · 3 Skills I'd Learn In the Age of AI — Ali has about 20 team members in his business: some are cost centres that cost it money and some are profit centres that make it money, and he asks which are likelier to stay in hard times. — 00:02:37
- 2026-06-18 · 3 Skills I'd Learn In the Age of AI — Ali's business is about to hire a director of client success; client success is generally a cost centre, Ali says, unless the department's leader turns it into a profit centre. — 00:02:37
- 2026-06-18 · 3 Skills I'd Learn In the Age of AI — recommendation: Ali: Rather than answering customer support, a cost centre that AI easily automates, Ali advises orchestrating a system that keeps customers from cancelling their memberships, which touches revenue generation and makes you very valuable. — 00:03:06
- 2026-06-18 · 3 Skills I'd Learn In the Age of AI — Ali: Generating the revenue is much harder than doing the work, Ali says. — 00:03:06
- 2026-06-18 · 3 Skills I'd Learn In the Age of AI — recommendation: Ali says that if you learn to use AI properly and use it to generate money for your business from the sales and marketing end, you are far more likely to thrive. — 00:03:36