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by znnajdla
31 days ago
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Bingo. AI is NOT making raw skill/talent obsolete, rather it’s actually making it more valuable. Deep technical knowledge now has even more leverage in the real world, not less, because you then have more “surfaces” to apply the use of AI. And this realization is what actually inspired me to build my own homelab datacenter to host my tech SaaS rather than use cloud services like AWS. The value of learning basic networking, devops, and server hardware is now multiplied because that expertise can be applied faster and farther with AI. Before AI I would have to spend several hours or days learning RouterOS, for example, to be able to configure a datacenter-class Mikrotik router. With Claude that became a 20 minute job and I learned a lot about routing configuration in the process — that gives me unique controls over my product offering that I simply wouldn’t have if I “just used the cloud”. In fact I am actually tempted to build my own OS — something I wouldnt have dared to think of before AI. |
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Plastering walls use to be a great paying skilled job, and when drywall came out and everyone thought that meant less time making boring flat walls and more time doing fancy plasterwork in corners and edges. But the fancy corners and edgings disappeared, it took too long compared to the rest of the wall plane and people who did it still wanted decent pay for maintaining or building that skill. And even for plain drywallers, productuon demands went up while wages stagnated. And now these days most drywall is seamed like trash and most guys doing it are desperate and/or addicts. The only thing that earns money now in drywall and plaster is meth head production speed and a lack of complaints about the work.