[shkkmo]

> Those who use AI as tool today will replace those that aren't tomorrow.

Unless they let their skills atrophy by offloading them to AI. The things they can do will be commodified and low value.

I suspect there will be demand for those who instead chose to hone their skills.

[stego-tech]

There always has been, thus far. When I was attending CC for an A+ class in High School, my lab partner was a woman in her early 40s who pulled down a staggering amount of money doing COBOL programming. I learned first hand that for every advancement in technology, there will always be folks who (rightly or wrongly) find no value proposition in upgrading needlessly.

AI as it presently stands is very much one of those things where in the immediate, sure, there’s money to be made jumping on the bandwagon. Even I keep tinkering with it in some capacity from an IT POV, and it has some legitimate use cases that even surprise me sometimes.

However, I aim to build a career like the COBOL programmer did: staying technically sharp as the world abstracts away, because someone, somewhere, will eventually need help digging out of a hole that upgrades or automation got them into.

And at that point, you can bill for the first class airfare, the five-star hotel, and four-figures a day to save their ass.

[ronsor]

I think if you have that problem, then you're not using AI as a tool; AI is using you.

Using AI as a tool doesn't mean having it do everything; it means you have the skill and knowledge to know where and how you can use it.

[rileymichael]

> it means you have the skill and knowledge to ...

sure, but in the real world the overwhelming majority of people loudly proclaiming the benefits of AI don't actually have the skill or knowledge (or discipline) to do so / judge its correctness. it's peak dunning-kruger