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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

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AI slop: The hidden cost of poor integration

Prevent AI slop by prioritizing clear integration strategies over individual job crafting. Empower your team with purpose and direction for effective AI use.

This article argues that “job crafting” prevents AI slop. I’d flip that completely.

Job crafting doesn’t prevent slop. Clear integration strategy does.

When you tell people to “craft their own roles around AI,” you’re admitting you haven’t done the work of understanding what AI should actually do in your organization. You’re outsourcing strategy to individual workers who lack the context, authority, or time to make those decisions well.

The result isn’t empowerment. It’s chaos with a progressive label.

AI slop comes from unclear purpose, not insufficient crafting. Fix the strategy first. Then let people adapt within that clarity.

The secret to avoiding ‘AI slop’ - let workers ‘job craft’ their own roles around AI tools, researchers say

Why customer tools are organized wrong

This article reveals a fundamental flaw in how customer support tools are designed—organizing by interaction type instead of by customer—and explains why this fragmentation wastes time and obscures the full picture you need to help users effectively.

Infrastructure shapes thought

The tools you build determine what kinds of thinking become possible. On infrastructure, friction, and building deliberately for thought rather than just throughput.

Server-side dashboard architecture: Why moving data fetching off the browser changes everything

How choosing server-side rendering solved security, CORS, and credential management problems I didn't know I had.

The work of being available now

A book on AI, judgment, and staying human at work.

The practice of work in progress

Practical essays on how work actually gets done.

The product changed its mind

A product pivoted its entire philosophy mid-session — from 'here's your list' to 'here's your next thing.' The code shipped in the same conversation as the idea. That's not iteration. That's something else.

Your project management tool was made for a non-human (AI) factory, not for you

Every project or task management tool on the market descends from Frederick Taylor's factory floor. The assumptions were wrong then. They're catastrophic in the Age of AI.

The last mile is all the miles

Building the product is the fun part. Deploying it, configuring auth, pasting email templates into dashboards, rotating leaked API keys — that's where the work actually lives.

Influence in the AI era: Why human skills still matter

Discover why empathy and leadership are essential in the AI era, enhancing jobs and ensuring a human-centered future in a tech-driven world.

Article analysis: Wharton professor Ethan Mollick says companies must make organizational changes if they want to benefit from AI

Transform your organization to unlock AI's full potential, as Wharton professor Ethan Mollick highlights essential changes for effective implementation.

Article analysis: Unlocking autonomous agent capabilities with Microsoft Copilot studio

Unlock the potential of autonomous agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio, enhancing efficiency and innovation for businesses in the AI-driven landscape.