Post by Shanti Vellanki

“What got us here won’t get us there.” Lately, that line has been sitting with me more than usual. With AI quietly reshaping how we work, what we value, and even how we define expertise — I find myself questioning things I once took for granted. This is not just another tool upgrade like we’ve seen over the past few decades. It is a shift in how work itself gets done: - Tasks → becoming automated or AI-assisted - Skills → shifting from execution to judgment, prompting, and integration - Roles → getting compressed (one person can now do what used to take a team) So the things that used to get people ahead — building deep but narrow expertise, mastering repetitive workflows, optimizing within isolated systems — don’t seem sufficient on their own anymore. What seems to matter more now: -       Adaptability and the willingness to evolve -       The ability to unlearn, and learn how to work with AI -       Thinking across domains, not just within one I tried to put some of these thoughts into words — not as answers, but as reflections. Just me thinking out loud… curious how others are making sense of this shift. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIatWork #FutureOfWork #WorkplaceEvolution #DigitalTransformation #Leadership