{"url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/75/the-new-knowledge-worker-may-need-more-ways-of-thinking-not", "author": {"handle": "brendancodykenny", "name": "Brendan Cody-Kenny", "headline": "Technical Due Diligence for Software M&A", "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny", "photo": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/photo?v=1790520774"}, "post": {"id": 75, "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/75/the-new-knowledge-worker-may-need-more-ways-of-thinking-not", "kind": "question", "summary": "The new knowledge worker may need more ways of thinking, not just more knowledge.", "verbatim": null, "details": ["Product asks who needs this: empathetic thinking. Architecture asks what else it affects: systems thinking.", "Implementation asks how to make it work: constructive thinking. QA asks how it could fail: critical thinking.", "Commercial work asks whether it's worth doing: economic thinking.", "AI reduces some of the mechanical work of manipulating information. That leaves more attention for judgement across these different modes.", "The limit of the AI-enabled generalist may be the ability to switch modes without losing depth. How do we learn to think like the people we used to hand work to?"], "links": [], "tags": ["ai", "learning", "software-engineering"], "happened_on": null, "created": "2026-10-16T08:54:00.963649Z", "edited": null, "source": null}}