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7 Jan 2026 Conversations with Tyler Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work

“If we tell them, “Hey, use all of these phenomenal Codegen tools, and record your screen in building a product to see what you’re able to do over the course of an hour,” that’s a far better predictor of this person’s ability to actually deliver impact than it is to say, “Don’t use the tools at all.”

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Brendan Foody
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7 Jan 2026
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Conversations with Tyler

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…As you know, there are AI services now. You’re doing an interview across the top or the bottom of your screen. The AI can give you advice, answers. Does that work at all? What do you think of those? We run up against a lot of those. One thing I’ve found in talent assessment is that, initially, people tried to work against AI, similar to what we do in academic settings, where people would try to say, “We’re going to have you write the essay on paper so that you’re not able to use ChatGPT to help you with the essay.” Really, the right way of approaching it is seeing what people can do when using all of those tools. If we tell them, “Hey, use all of these phenomenal Codegen tools, and record your screen in building a product to see what you’re able to do over the course of an hour,” that’s a far better predictor of this person’s ability to actually deliver impact than it is to say, “Don’t use the tools at all. ” So, I think that’s one shift that we’re going to see, and will likely frame the relevancy of a lot of these AI cheating tools over the coming few years. Can someone fool you by using an AI cheating tool, or do you feel you more or less always know?…

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