AI skills

The biggest myth about AI careers is that they belong to engineers. McKinsey's own research says otherwise. In this week's post, I break down exactly how professionals in marketing, HR, finance, and operations can build an AI career in 90 days, including the no-code tools to use, the portfolio pieces to build, and the entry-level roles paying INR 6 to 18 LPA in India right now.

The biggest names in tech agree: the chatbot era is already giving way to something more powerful. Agentic AI doesn't wait for prompts. It takes goals, breaks them into steps, and acts across systems autonomously. This piece breaks down exactly how agentic and generative AI differ, what agentic systems look like in practice, and which skills will define the next wave of professional fluency.

On a McKinsey podcast, Jane Fraser was asked what she wished she had known before becoming CEO of Citi. She didn't mention finance. She didn't mention technology. What she said instead is the most useful thing you will read about AI engineer jobs this year.