I ran 4-5 client workshops over the last few months, and all of them ended with one question: what does working with AI mean for your team?

This is THE question right now

Here's what I'm seeing inside organizations:

1. Each person has their own approach; no one is sharing recipes
2. Confusion about which models or platforms to use
3. Top-down dictates without the leaders even knowing what they want.
4. Lots of overconfidence with junior people shipping slop

One prompt turns into a 30-page deck, and then someone ships it to a Director, who then has to decode it. People are calling this a "slop grenade."

AI work feels different from traditional work except we're still just performing the same work we've been expected to do for years. But AI never has a "done" setting. You can prompt forever or prompt once.

All of this raises the stakes on judgment, taste, and understanding.

A few simple rules I've seen help:

• Don't send something that takes longer to read than it took you to create.
• Spend more time on the thinking. This is often what I'm brought in to teach. Once you have a basic toolkit, you can treat AI as a critic for feedback or a sparring partner to iterate with you.
• Have it give you feedback on your process, iterate, and create artifacts. As you are creating things, have it create visuals, design criteria, and rules based on what you like. Have it list a detailed output of what you don't like or what you correct. Have it summarize the whole process, visually and in text form. Then share it with colleagues and see if you can begin a conversation about the process.

The question I keep asking people: AI is going to keep shifting how work gets done, so who on your team is responsible for improving how you work?

Often the answer is no one. The process emerged organically, and it's the way things are done. But AI seeps into every task throughout the organization and will 100% disrupt all of our cherished approaches.

It’s wild times right now, but I’m having a ton of fun working through how to think about all of this.

Would love to hear how you are dealing with AI at your company right now. Hit reply; I read all of them.