Picking collaborators in the AI era: hard skills matter less, workflow hunger matters more
ricklamers · x · 2026-11-12
Developer ricklamers argues that finding the right collaborators is harder now. You used to filter on hard skills, which predicted contribution potential well; today those matter less, and subtler attributes matter more: willingness to adopt workflows aligned with the latest AI capabilities, hunger to maximally accelerate projects with these techniques, and a thinking style (e.g. systems thinking) suited to this paradigm. Social recommendations work better for these hard-to-quantify traits, while hard skills can still be interviewed for.
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