Master AI tools now or become obsolete

It's not AI that's going to replace humans. It's other humans that are being augmented and using AI tools that are going to be more competitive in a job market and stuff like that.

Quite simply in one word, play. We all have to be playing with this technology. The risk of becoming more experienced in your career is you get stuck in your ways.

When we look at the skills required to do your job, by 2030, it will change by 70%. So whether or not you're looking to change your job, your job is changing.

Cohen is discussing LinkedIn's AI-first transformation and how top engineering talent at LinkedIn are embracing these new AI-powered development approaches.

Top talent has this tendency of continuously trying to get better at their craft and this innate need to be at the cutting edge of how you build, and I think we're seeing this here as well.

The incentives for you are so aligned with your organization of what we're asking for, right? Because we need you to change. We want to be a more agile, adaptive, resilient organization that can deal with the pace of change, but you want as well for your own career.

You used to put a Google Search on a skill on your resume because you grew up with Google.

High agency is something that we really look for, people that are not going to come in and wait for everyone else to allow them to do something, they're just going to see a problem and go do it.

"These tools" refers to AI-powered software development platforms like Lovable, which generate functional code from natural language instructions.

The best thing for people who are interested in this or interested in just being a part of the future economies, get your hands very dirty with these tools because being in the top 10% in using them is going to absolutely set you apart in the coming months and years.

"This thing" and "that thing" refer to identifying a specific problem you want to solve, then using AI tools to solve it.

If you spend a full week on trying to reach an outcome, the best way to learn is I want to do this thing and then I want to use AI to do that thing. And you've spent a full week, you are in the top 1% in the global population.

The return on investment for learn to code is doubling every six months.

He made a year's worth of progress in two months because every time I sat down with him and told him, 'Okay, here's how you tell a story, here's how you think about a headline,' he recorded all of it, put it into a prompt, and he never made the same mistake twice.

If you go to a coding bootcamp, they're going to start with what is Git? You're inverting the process, you're giving the tool before the actual problem. I think all of that stuff, you don't have to worry about.

Junior developers, when they start, usually we expect them to be able to write simple code. But if now there is an AI system that is helping them writing code, they can spend more time from the get-go understanding the system, understanding the environment that they're building, or understanding that product that they're building, which today they don't have time because they're still learning how to code.

If you are fundamentally a backlog administrator, good luck protecting that because already people are doing that. It's only a matter of time before that becomes pretty well-supported.