Playing Tetris at Every Level

A Systems View of AI Disruption

This essay was contributed by Magda Jagucka Miller. Magda helps media and tech companies navigate change, guiding organizational transformation and AI integration with practical, strategic insight.

At a recent career roundtable, senior computer science and cinematography students asked me what skills they should focus on to stay relevant. Entry-level jobs, they’d heard, are disappearing. Years of expertise could be obsolete the moment they graduate or worse, reduced to a one-click AI task.

We landed on an important truth: fundamentals still matter. For engineering systems or crafting stories, the core principles don’t vanish. What changes is the stack. It’s your craft plus knowing how AI tackles similar tasks. Add curiosity, critical thinking, creative problem-solving, and a willingness to experiment, and you have a toolkit that can navigate uncertainty. By the end of the conversation, the mood shifted—lighter, more hopeful.

But I realized entry-level roles aren’t the only ones impacted…