[steve_adams_86]

> I think that it's not a multiplier on skills.

I'm not sure. It's a reducer on time to refine and adopt skills, if you're interested. I know that's somewhat pedantic, but there really is a skill multiplier if that's what you want out of it.

I'm far, far better at using AWS than I was after years of using it (for better or worse). I use the command line more effectively than ever. These are real skills that have come to me as a result of that reduction of time to get the answers I wanted. This applies to all kinds of things in my work, and it's been quite liberating to have this incredible tightening of temporal scales in order to get where I'd like to be, resulting in actual differences in my own outputs and capabilities.

Still, I agree that time really is a key facet. I could have found this information before, too. It just took so long to do it.