Apply AI Where You Know Nothing

The biggest leverage from AI isn’t in your strongest zone. It’s in the areas where you’re a complete zero.

Take a senior backend engineer with 10+ years in highload. They pick up AI and start applying it to what they already do best: writing cleaner code, refactoring faster, ускоряя рутинные правки, тесты и рефакторинг.

В большинстве случаев это не увеличит доход пропорционально росту продуктивности.

Если человек уже продаёт себя как дорогой специалист в узкой нише, the market pays a premium for being strong in that niche, and the jump from "great" to "slightly greater" is almost invisible to buyers. Год назад мне сформулировали это так: AI gives the biggest return not where you are already strong, but where you have no working process at all.

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Why AI works for everyone except certain developers

Non-technical people are outperforming developers with AI. This isn’t luck. It’s a very old principle showing up in a new context.

Something counterintuitive has been happening over the past year. The people most likely to complain that AI is "useless" are software developers. The people actually getting results? Course sellers, project managers, humanities graduates, and business analysts.

The pattern has a name.

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