Stephen Downes

This is an interesting take. Philippa Hardman explains the 'disappearance' of entry-level roles in learning and development as a consequence of the way AI is replacing human work at those lower levels. Nothing new there. But then comes the observation, "L&D work is going from a craft you learned by doing - producing courses, mastering tools, making things - to a discipline you're trusted to exercise: diagnosing problems, specifying solutions, judging quality and measuring impact." I wonder whether this is true - the professions I can think of, such as engineering, medicine and law, all depend a lot on developing through experience the sort of intuition and socialization needed to be 'professional'. Learning, in other words, by doing.