There are two ways to use AI One is to replace the laborious parts of your work with AI . The other is to rebuild the shape of the work itself, on the premise that AI is there from the start . Both are "using AI," but where you stand between them completely changes what comes out. Ask people "Are you using AI?" and more and more answer "yes." Drafting meeting notes, writing first-pass emails, handing off part of the code. All of it is real use. But what's happening inside splits in two: are you replacing tasks while keeping your current way of working, or are you rebuilding the way of working itself? And the feeling that "we brought in AI but nothing really changed" often comes from not separating these two — from doing only one of them without realizing it. The two positions Let me lay the two out a little more carefully. Replace — hand part of the existing work to AI Keep the existing process as it is, and replace the laborious tasks with AI.…