When anyone can build a course, the real job is deciding which ones shouldn’t exist — from drphilippahardman.substack.com by Dr. Philippa Hardman
Why deciding is the only L&D skill AI can’t replace.
The biggest AI risk that L&D faces isn’t that it gets left behind: it’s that we build more — and flood the organisation with meh-quality content nobody needed in the first place.
In this post, I’ll make the case that:
- The L&D job has just split in two — and most of us are still working on the wrong half.
- There’s a new operating model coming for the role, and it’s already running inside a lot of the companies you’ve heard of.
- The smartest critique of everything I’m about to argue comes from Ethan Mollick — and I think he’s half right.
The question we’ve been asking for the last two years — “how do I get faster at building?” — was the wrong one.
The real question is: can I look at fifteen AI-generated learning assets and decide which three are worth scaling — and put my name to that decision?