Category: AI Strategy

  • The Digital Tailor: Why the Next Great Tech Job Looks Nothing Like Tech

    The Digital Tailor: Why the Next Great Tech Job Looks Nothing Like Tech

    Tygart Media Strategy
    Volume Ⅰ · Issue 04Quarterly Position
    By Will Tygart
    Long-form Position
    Practitioner-grade

    There’s a moment in every fitting room that has nothing to do with fabric.

    The tailor doesn’t ask what color you want. Not yet. First, they ask where you’re going. Who will be in the room. Whether you’ll be standing all night or seated at a table. Whether this is the kind of event where people remember what you wore — or the kind where they remember what you said.

    The clothes come last. The understanding comes first.

    I’ve been building AI systems for businesses for the past two years, and I’ve started to realize that what I actually do has very little to do with technology. The job that’s emerging — the one that doesn’t have a name yet — looks a lot more like a Savile Row fitting than a software deployment.

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