7 Ways to Get So Good at AI, People Will Think You Are AI
Key takeaways
- It’s all part of a new identity at work (and maybe at home): the AI native.
- Being AI native—or “agentic,” as AI natives say—means staying adaptable to new experiences.
- Don’t waste your time fiddling with a single chatbot when you could be commanding a whole army of them.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
Photo-Illustration: Jobanny Cabrera; Getty Images Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Sam Liang is appalled as I confess my technique for recording an interview: running the Voice Memos app on an i Phone and transferring the transcript manually to a Google Doc. The CEO of Otter, a transcription service for analyzing meetings, looks at me as if I tried to call into our video chat using a rotary phone. He believes, naturally, that I should switch to Otter. He’s probably right.
It’s all part of a new identity at work (and maybe at home): the AI native. Time-saving productivity tools like next-gen note-takers, task-based agents, and chatty inbox assistants are exploding in popularity as they invade every nook and cranny of our digital lives. While it’s critical to keep concerns about security and hallucinations top of mind when using any AI feature, early adopters are developing a fluency that will likely pay dividends for years to come.
Being AI native—or “agentic,” as AI natives say—means staying adaptable to new experiences. Transcription failures aside, I’ve embraced experimentation, from generating AI podcasts to letting Claude organize my desktop files. (Some of this I talked about in my newsletter series last year, AI Unlocked.) If you want to get so good at using AI tools that your coworkers start questioning whether it's blood or ribbon cables running beneath your skin, here are my seven tips for AI-powered ascendance.