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Let’s just say I’m saving most of my money and have dramatically cut most discretionary spending.
EM level. If you're not scared yet, you just haven't used the latest tools. Try it. Opus 4.6. GPT 5.3. Cowork. You should get scared. At the very least you should upskill and take advantage of the AI skill arbitrage that still exists.
Upskilling isn’t going to matter when it destroys our jobs in 1-2 years. Who cares when you are great at prompting when your entire profession is destroyed? Best to plan now to do something else in 3 years max
I didn’t think it was that great till I was at a training where the guy used AI generated notes and an internally developed agent to create a 70 page business requirements doc in 1min….
The associate career starting point is dead. I think there will be dramatic cuts to the rest of us in 3-5 years.
Making me way more productive and efficient. Those who deploy Gen/Agentic AI smartly will flourish in consulting. Those who struggle to adopt and adapt will face insecurity.
deploy smartly?:D
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First year associates scare me less than AI. AI will drive analysis but if not done with enough care and judgment, competitors will credibly exploit it. But clients are demanding it.
Owing
automating jobs 2k lines at a time
AI will make consulting easier to access for clients (cheaper) by enabling shorter timelines and smaller teams to do the same amount of work.
There will be more consultants, and more consulting work, but it will look different
Basically more pressure on consultants to produce faster and cheaper work.
Ima start calling ice on companies to get a position
We’ve seen this movie before. Cheap street portrait painters had to become real artists or be eaten by photography. Scribes had to focus on calligraphy as printing presses replaced simple copying. Cabinetmakers couldn’t keep making basic furniture once factory lines could do that cheaper. With CAD software, basic drawing became simple but real engineering still had value.
So to survive as a professional you need to up your quality level and embrace the professional tools and workflows. If Gamma can make a basic deck for anyone, you need to learn how to make a great storyline and deck with Claude Cowork. If anyone can make a basic summary of interview notes with ChatGPT, you need to master the bespoke tools like Skimle.
Don’t just adopt and mindlessly use the basic tools and try to sell the output at consulting fee levels… clients can do that too & smell your tricks miles away :)
I mean a partner has the absolute most to gain from something like AI. As an owner they are worried about landing projects/work for the firm and not about hitting hours. It’s only a positive to them. It’s not like their job/role changes very much from this.