Takeawys on Phil Chen's career advice in the age of AI

Original post: ‘Career advice in the age of AI’ by Phil Chen [link]

AI advances on well-defined, gradable tasks, making valuable work center on ungradable skills: identifying important problems, ambitious pursuits, and last-mile execution.

1. Prioritize truly limited resources: time, strong human relationships, and reputation by focusing on meaningful problems and ensuring excellent work is visible to reputable peers.

2. Learn to find high-value problems and allocate tokens/time effectively, bringing intuition and context when collaborating with agents.

3. Choose the most ambitious form of problems and companies working on frontiers with real shots at success.

4. Sprint the last mile for differentiation, build career xG¹ through aligned opportunities, and maintain efficiency in converting them.