After automation, art school will be the best training for technical work
every · x · 2026-09-04
Product leader Hilary Gridley argues at Every that as AI takes over execution, knowledge workers will act more like art directors—curating references and judging output quality. Key points: - Skills like providing context, writing specs, and building evals don't go far without underlying taste; - Art school teaches exactly that: artistic literacy (a deep reference library beyond what everyone finds on Pinterest) and critique (rigorous expert panels that sharpen judgment—essentially eval-writing training); - Tomorrow's most in-demand talent will combine good instincts for references with the ability to communicate standards of excellence to people and robots alike.
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