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CAREER DEVELOPMENT·January 11, 2025·6 MIN READ
Career Moats for Developers in the ASI Era
By Jordan Patel
Moats that matter
- Safety-first thinking: translating business intent into guardrails.
- Domain expertise paired with AI orchestration.
- Narrative skills: explaining why an agent made a decision.
Weekly practice plan
Monday: run a red-team drill. Wednesday: improve an agent’s observability. Friday: write a one-page postmortem and ship the fix.
Hiring signals
Teams increasingly screen for how you reason about AI risk, not just frameworks you know.
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