The skill that gets automated first is the one that looks most like translation work.

by Remy van Duijkeren | Apr 29, 2026 | Shorts

The skill that gets automated first is the one that looks most like translation work.

Building flows in Power Automate is translation work: take a business requirement, find the right connectors, chain them, test. That is a procedural task. AI does procedural tasks.

The skill that does not get automated:

Knowing what the business actually needs.
Understanding the domain well enough to catch what AI gets wrong.
Recognising the edge case that lives in a three-year-old decision nobody wrote down.

Power Automate connectors were a tool for expressing intent. AI is now better at constructing that expression.

The value moves upstream. To the intent itself.

"Automation strategist" compounds from here. "Flow builder" does not.

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