{"id":99148,"date":"2026-09-10T10:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T14:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=99148"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:05:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:05:58","slug":"the-disappearing-bottom-rung-in-ld-the-ai-workflow-redesign-method-how-the-top-6-of-users-get-real-returns-from-ai-hardman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/09\/10\/the-disappearing-bottom-rung-in-ld-the-ai-workflow-redesign-method-how-the-top-6-of-users-get-real-returns-from-ai-hardman\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Disappearing Bottom Rung in L&#038;D&#8221; + &#8220;The AI Workflow Redesign Method: How the Top 6% of Users Get Real Returns from AI&#8221; [Hardman]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drphilippahardman.substack.com\/p\/the-disappearing-bottom-rung-in-l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Disappearing Bottom Rung in L&amp;D<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from drphilippahardman.substack.com by Dr Philippa Hardman<br \/>\n<em>Junior roles are rapidly disappearing from L&amp;D. Here\u2019s the data + my hypothesis about why it\u2019s happening<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>TL;DR: the bottom rung of L&amp;D isn\u2019t just narrowing \u2014 it\u2019s being automated. The humans who remain move up the ladder, and the profession re-forms around a new set of AI and domain specialisms.<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8230;<br \/>\nIs AI responsible for reshaping knowledge work, including L&amp;D? My hypothesis is a resounding YES, primarily because of what I see in L&amp;D job ads in 2026&#8230;<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Embedded post\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/embed\/feed\/update\/urn:li:share:7501241714620256257\" width=\"504\" height=\"1729\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drphilippahardman.substack.com\/p\/the-ai-workflow-redesign-method-how\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The AI Workflow Redesign Method: How the Top 6% of Users Get Real Returns from AI<\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from drphilippahardman.substack.com by Dr Philippa Hardman<br \/>\n<em>A practical three-step method to redesign your workflow &amp; get ~2X value from AI<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">One pattern I see emerging from that research is this: the people getting the\u00a0most\u00a0value from AI aren\u2019t the ones using it most, or the ones with the most advanced technical skills: they\u2019re the ones who redesigned their day to day workflows around AI\u2019s capabilities.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>How to Redesign a Workflow in Three Steps<br \/>\n<\/strong>In my bootcamp we use a task-mapping process that distils workflow redesign down to three steps: map the work, tag each task by the impact you want AI to have, then validate whether what you want is possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Three steps get you to a plan: two or three tasks worth building, each with a written standard. Turning that plan into a redesign takes two more moves, which I\u2019ll cover after the steps. I\u2019m flagging that now because the moves are the bit most people skip, and they\u2019re where the redesign actually happens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Here\u2019s a how to for each step:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Disappearing Bottom Rung in L&amp;D &#8212; from drphilippahardman.substack.com by Dr Philippa Hardman Junior roles are rapidly disappearing from L&amp;D. Here\u2019s the data + my hypothesis about why it\u2019s happening TL;DR: the bottom rung of L&amp;D isn\u2019t just narrowing \u2014 it\u2019s being automated. The humans who remain move up the ladder, and the profession re-forms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,387,174,86,209,112,200,419,119,482,102,7,838,118,206,38,321,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-business","category-career-development","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-ideas-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-intelligent-systems","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-training-corporate-universities","category-trends","category-uk","category-united-states","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99148"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99158,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99148\/revisions\/99158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}