🗂️ "When L&D professionals consciously decide where to engage AI and where to stay human, work becomes lighter rather than heavier. Use AI to help you craft, collect and publish - but sort and polish on your own."

Hello Reader,

In my recent article for the Australian Institute of Training & Development, I used my 5-Step Creative Process to help Learning & Development practitioners redesign learning workflows around human judgment.

If you've never seen my 5-Step Creative Process before, it goes like this:

1. 🗑️ Collect
2. 🗂️ Sort
3. 🛠️ Craft
4. ✨ Polish
5. 📖 Publish

When AI makes creation cheap, that means judgment becomes more valuable. This was the focus of the article I wrote for AITD:

AI makes bad judgment scale faster

Discernment is becoming a scarce skill as educators are powered by AI.

The question is no longer “How do we create more content?” It’s
​“How do we decide what’s worth keeping?”

Here’s the shift I’m seeing in high-performing teams:

• AI handles the Collect and Craft stages at speed
• Humans focus on Sort and Polish, where quality is decided

When creating educational content gets faster, that doesn't mean that learning gets better. Because better learning comes from:

• sharper judgment
• stronger context
• clearer intent

Not more slides. Not more tools. More discernment.

This is exactly what we’ll be practicing live in my free webinar later this week, Prompt Like A Pro: Practical AI Techniques (RSVP here).

You won’t just learn how to prompt. You’ll learn how to think with AI—and decide what actually deserves to be polished.

If you'd like to read my full article on the AITD website, click below. It's a good read for educators, leaders, and L&D professionals.

📰 New AI News This Week

• Anthropic released the new Mythos model only to select developers in Project Glasswing
• OpenAI introduced a new $100/mo pricing tier
• Perplexity Computer can now connect to all your financial accounts as a read-only personal CFO

👓 What I’m Reading

• AI ROI: 2026 Benchmarks by Unframe​
• 5 Key Trends Affecting CIO by Info-Tech​
• The Scaffolded AI Literacy (SAIL) Framework for Education by AcademyEX​

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- Caelan Huntress ​[email protected]​

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