While AI is most effective at automating narrow, repetitive tasks, it’s less capable of stitching those tasks together into a coherent whole. A full-stack professional knows how to orchestrate —they use AI to handle discrete components, while maintaining oversight and strategic control across the entire workflow.

1. Audit your skill stack. List the 3–5 core components of your role. Circle the one you’d be least confident doing solo. That’s your first gap.

2. Map the adjacent skills. Write down the two roles you rely on most but don’t do yourself (designer? analyst? ops?).

3. Zoom out to cross-functional human skills. Pick one “people” capability you underuse... See more

You need depth, not least because it's essential for AI oversight. Only someone with domain fluency can evaluate a model’s outputs, catch subtle errors, and know when to override. And you need breadth because while AI excels at narrow, repetitive tasks, your edge becomes being able to understand adjacent domains.