Google launched a free collection of AI courses to upskill the current generation into the AI era. ⤵️
“Build AI skills for tomorrow, today” – the headline of skills.google reaffirms what I’ve been repeating for several years now:
1. Humans are here to stay – but they need to “play well” with machines and robots
2. AI will keep progressing – not exponentially, but horizontally, across different realms of work
3. “AI Operator” will be an integral role over the next 2-4 years. With so many brand new tools, apps, and LLM features, high-level controllers will be invery high demand
4. Companies will think twice before hiring, and request more and more AI-native skills
5. AI-native first hires will deploy different paradigms as well – more planning vs. execution, more management (of agents) vs. DIY, more holistic and high-scale delivery vs. 2 tasks a week
➡️ On Friday, Google expanded their Replit partnership to bring vibe coding to the enterprise as well.
Vibe platforms like Replit and Lovable now produce semantic and well-separated code that can be synced into GitHub and tied to all CI/CD workflows, with unit and integration tests part of the cycle.
👉 Replit’s post-delivery tests are now very advanced – with browser-based testing spanning up and interactive tests on behalf of a real user.
The same principles now apply to Product Managers who have to step up their PRD work, marketers with a vast variety of tools to use, designers who can build prototypes with AI before turning into fully fledged Figma builds.
🥷 Every day, the gap between “2020 native” and “AI-native” is growing larger. Don’t let it become impossible to compensate.
