Career Moats for Developers in the ASI Era

Moats that matter

• Safety-first thinking: translating business intent into guardrails.
• Domain expertise paired with AI orchestration.
• Narrative skills: explaining why an agent made a decision.

Weekly practice plan

Monday: run a red-team drill. Wednesday: improve an agent’s observability. Friday: write a one-page postmortem and ship the fix.

Hiring signals

Teams increasingly screen for how you reason about AI risk, not just frameworks you know.