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Two skills, the same effort to learn, wildly different payoff. Automation deletes its own evidence, which is why 'just tell them' never works, and what to do instead.
Nobody interviews for it, nobody lists it, and then an 80-page tender falls apart on the Wednesday. The skill isn't invisible because people missed it, it's invisible because it has no name.
Six people watching your cursor, a tool you've barely opened, and a room that assumes you've already mastered it. The pressure to look fluent with Copilot is manufactured - here's what to do instead.
One keyboard shortcut convinced people I was better at my job than I was. That's a real career lever, and a trap: fluency with a tool gets mistaken for judgment about what it actually shows.
You've been operating a level up for a year, waiting to be noticed. Promotions run on evidence assembled before the case is made, not effort noticed during it.
The ask is legitimate, the person is reasonable, and the honest answer is no - here's how to say it without it sounding like you can't cope.
Every 'while you're in there, could you just...' is small enough to say yes to and invisible enough to never get credit for.
You explained the fix perfectly and the room still glazed over. The problem was never your explanation.