Leading product in enterprise is different. AI is rewiring how the best people work. The old pattern was jump in, start doing, figure it out. The new pattern is slower to start and faster to finish: gather context, ingest everything relevant, get a rough shape. Then let AI draft while you direct.

The skill isn't just execution — it's preparation. What context does this problem need? What constraints matter? What does good look like? The person who spends 30 minutes assembling the right context gets a better result in one AI pass than the person who jumps straight in and iterates for hours.

We're becoming directors of work, not just doers of it. The ones who figure this out first aren't just faster — they're solving problems more completely.