Conductor, not operator.
You will not be asked to babysit a model. You will be asked to lead one, own its record, and defend its decisions. That is a different job, and a rarer one.
The AI does the producing. You do the conducting, the judging, and the deciding, and you are accountable for all of it. You would run the model on real work, in the room where the work happens, against the problem it exists to answer.
You hold the gate
You decide the irreversible, and you can say why to someone who will push back hard.
You keep the record
You log the miss, not the excuse. You would rather write down a mistake than hide it. It lands in the register you would own.
You verify first
You do not state as fact what you have not checked. Confidence does not move you, because anyone can check the record for themselves.
Who this is not for.
Prompt jockeys
If your edge is coaxing a model, the model will out-jockey you next quarter. We hire judgment.
Empire builders
There is no team to grow under you. Small is the design, not a phase to escape.
Hedgers
If you cannot make a call and own it, the gate is not a seat you can sit in.