# AI skills

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Leading AI Adoption

The most valuable AI training for accountants might not count as CPD

In the last few months, agents running on Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 changed what AI can do — but the training most firms will buy to keep up is still a 2024 prompt-engineering course. The skills that actually build an AI-native team are learned through reps in your own work, and the most valuable may not even count as CPD. Here are the six questions to grade any AI training before you book it.

Peter McCarrollJune 10, 2026

Building AI Workflows

I built an AI skill for searching flights. It taught me more about context engineering than any client project.

I built an AI skill for something completely unrelated to accounting — booking flights — and learned more about context engineering in two hours than months of client work had taught me. The first draft captured my obvious preferences. The corrections surfaced knowledge I didn't know I had. That's the encoding gap, and it's the reason most firms' AI stays mediocre.

Peter McCarrollApril 2, 2026