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

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.