We have to be careful of our relationship with the "easy button" that is AI. For our own benefit, we need to be clear on the value added by human expertise vs artificial.
As I posted yesterday, I'm going to be doing a demonstration of autonomous risk scoring of healthcare data using an AI agent.
MCP for X has this great feature where it can not only consume encoded expertise, it is bi-directional. You can use your AI agent to draft decision trees and workflow logic. Simply point to an existing process, and it will draft a useful decision logic tree for it that you can then edit and use.
Yet, even with all this automation, and perhaps because of it, I find myself dragging my feet on the ONE part that truly matters. My human experience and judgment. I need to spend the time to review the drafted tree, edit it and add stuff to it from my years of experience doing this stuff.
This is telling, and I'm sure I'm not alone. When AI is a click away, people will reach for it again and again, preferring the easy button than focusing, thinking hard, and writing instructions for the AI agent. Yes focusing for a while and thinking hard has friction. But human experience and judgment is also perhaps the last and ultimate remaining value to justify knowledge work jobs.
Anyone, or even any "thing", can press that button. If you have a marketable expertise, experience and judgement, it is worth spending the time to leverage that with AI to differentiate yourself and your firm.
Sermon over, I'm excited to spend the time to edit this decision logic and test it on MEPS. Will report back. Will also share the expertise when done so you can inspect it.