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The AI Skills Stack
Four disciplines and five building blocks that take you from chatting with AI to delegating complex, autonomous work.
There are four distinct skills involved in working effectively with AI. They build upward — prompt craft is the wide foundation everyone needs, and specification engineering is the peak that lets AI work autonomously. Click any layer to learn more.
The core shift: Prompt craft requires you at the keyboard for every interaction. Each discipline above it gives AI more ability to work independently — until, at the top, you hand off a complete specification and AI executes while you sleep.
▲ Build upward — each layer requires the ones below it
The important thing: These aren't just AI skills — they're communication skills. Stating problems completely, defining "done," encoding your judgment, writing clear specifications? That makes you better at delegating to humans, writing grant applications, and onboarding new staff. AI just forces you to do what the best communicators have always done.
This framework is adapted from Nate Jones's analysis of AI input skills evolution. His Substack covers AI strategy and implementation for professionals.