Build Pauls who operate the model, or Annas who hold intuition

Many AI training programmes are quietly making your team less capable.

They strip away tacit knowledge, the unspoken know-how that takes years to build.

There are two modes of using AI assistants.

1. 01Imagine Anna. She uses her AI assistant as an instrument and keeps the judgement.

1. 01Imagine Paul. He lets the AI assistant propose, frame and decide.

From the outside, both look productive.

But there is a silent compounding effect happening.

It is the change happening in both of their brains.

Anna leads the AI assistant. She is adding to her tacit knowledge with every interaction.

Paul follows the AI assistant. His neural connectivity is weaker, and his tacit knowledge barely grows.

This effect is not noticeable after 1 week. But after 6-12 months? You'll feel a massive difference.

You have seen this kind of person:

• The senior who hears a customer's tone from one sentence
• The engineer who knows a system smells wrong before logs catch it

Today, intuition is the essential survival capacity that organisations need in a world that is brittle, non-linear and unpredictable.

If you're cultivating Pauls, you'll untrain the intuitive capacity of your organisation.

You will create a gap that AI will not be able to fill, no matter how much better LLMs get.

The gap needs to be filled by someone who knows your customers, your team, your specific situation. An LLM has none of this, by construction.

Tacit knowledge cannot be fully articulated.

Knowledge that cannot be articulated cannot enter the training data of an LLM. Better models do not change that.

The key to a flourishing company is making sure to design AI training programmes that nurture Annas.

The key to a flourishing company is designing AI training programmes that nurture Annas.

• How do you build the habit of working a problem through before prompting?
• What work stays AI-free permanently, to preserve the muscle?
• What work stays AI-free occasionally, as deliberate practice?
• How do you train people to challenge the AI's most confident output?

The training you design today decides what your team can do in twelve months.

Build Pauls who operate the model, or build Annas who hold your company's intuition.