The tool appeared on GitHub (a cloud platform for storing IT projects) on March 30. The idea is as simple as day: you just feed the neural network an employee's correspondence, documents, work emails, screenshots, and get an AI agent that writes in their style, thinks with their logic, and, according to the creator, even knows how to shift blame onto others. This was documented as a feature, not a bug. As a result, within 5 days of publishing this code on GitHub, the project received ten thousand stars from users, which is one of the best results in the platform's history. Now take your time, feel the meaning of this news again, apply it to yourself and your field of activity, and then think about all office workers in the world. Don't forget that this technology won't become dumber, but will get smarter every hour, every day… exponentially, my dears.

The Black Mirror life scenario doesn't end there, and next comes a defense weapon for such cases - anti-distillation.skill. A tool from a programmer named Dan Xiaoxian. In her social media, she explained her tool for protecting against creating digital copies of you. "No one wants to be turned into a file and lose their job. So I came up with this." The tool takes your work archive and processes it through a "cleansing" layer. The output is 2 files. One for the employer - structured, professional, and strategically empty where it matters. The second is for you, where real knowledge stays. Three levels of cleansing intensity: light, medium, heavy. "If your management is just checking a box - use heavy," advises Xiaoxian. Luddism version 2.0, elegant and frightening at the same time.

But here's where the story stops being about China and becomes about all of us.

When people started digitizing themselves preemptively, through yourself.skill, something truly unsettling was discovered. Years of experience, unique competencies, the status of an irreplaceable specialist - when trying to formalize all this, it compresses into a few megabytes of predictable patterns. Communication style - a pattern, decision-making logic - a pattern, crisis response - a pattern of patterns.

And now an even more unpleasant observation from analysts' perspective. The easiest and most accurate to distill are the most conscientious employees. Those who wrote detailed retrospectives after every project. Those who laid out the full logic of their decisions in conflict correspondence. Those who were maximally transparent, detailed, consistent, and honest. Their "digital footprint" turns out to be the most complete and functional. Conscientiousness, which was always considered the main professional virtue, has become fuel for one's own replacement.

This isn't just corporate nastiness, though it is that too. It's something deeper.

Because when you look at what "colleague.skill" cannot copy, the picture appears in a more philosophical light. This algorithm for copying your professional skills captures retrospective documents, but it does not capture the suffering a person went through while writing them. The whole point is that it copies answers to decisions, but does not copy the intuition at the moment of the decision itself. You know, like an experienced programmer glances at logs and feels - something is wrong here. Or a great negotiator takes a pause at the right moment and stays silent, and that silence weighs more than any argument.

This is exactly what cannot be written into a file, cannot be digitized, cannot be "systematized." Probably because a person themselves cannot fully explain it. One Chinese analyst wrote about this very accurately: "Whatever the system distills, it is always just a shadow of the person."

And here we come again to the question I ask you to ponder.

Has professional experience always been just a commodity? After all, there was no tool before that could dissect it so coldly. Highly specialized skills, communication style, logic of conclusions and decisions - all this, it seems, was never truly unique.