I'm energized by a challenge, and AI's impact on creative work hasn't been any different. There's always a new thing threatening to change how we work. My instinct isn't to defend the old way or chase the new one: it's to build a real understanding of how something works, give it a good old-fashioned try, and figure out what frameworks and governance it actually takes to make it stick.
AI implementation at my last role meant building champions and bringing skeptics along: not just getting people to use the tools, but rethinking intake processes, SLAS, and role definitions to support change. It cut GTM timelines on appropriate projects from 12 days to 2–3. It wasn't, and isn't, a solve for everything, but as the team built confidence, it opened up real conversation about prioritization, learning from failure, and where we best showed our value.
Personally, yes, I use AI as a thought partner and pressure-tester: to synthesize and organize my own thoughts (I love to comprehensively vomit out everything that's in my head for consideration), and to check my thinking against best practices and patterns. But the last human touch, our judgment, always wins in the end.