There's a tricky paradox when it comes to AI agents. If you’re not careful, they will take your ability to do your own work.

The better they get at your work, the worse you get at managing them. Because managing well requires understanding the work. And understanding the work requires doing it.

Seven things to stop doing right now to fix this without losing the benefits of AI agents at all:

1. Stop automating the tasks that teach you things

2. Stop rejecting AI output on fuzzy judgment

3. Stop offloading to agents right away

4. Stop splitting your work into “AI” and “human” tasks

5. Stop choosing two birds in the bush

6. Stop using AI to evaluate AI to evaluate AI

7. Stop deferring the understanding to later