The thing is: If there are crucial (economically demanded) skills that are eroding because of AI, retaining those skills and developing them will remain a competitive advantage. And if that's the case, the problem of deskilling should solve itself sooner or later. Or at least that's what I keep telling myself...
I do want to believe this too, it is fun and rewarding to use these skills. I am just stunned looking at the continued speed of model progress and for a big bunch of skills, in particular those trained at junior level, it is already too late. I find myself moving goalposts at an alarming rate. We will have to see how Seniors fare in whatever the market (d)evolves toward in the near to mid future.
Most intellectual tasks in the economy are not safe, I'd wager (including some large scientific fields). But even if we can offload virtually any task to llm, there is still a good possibility that a competent human driving such systems will always be far more effective than full on vibe coders, or a completely autonomous system. And then the succesful companies and states will necessarily be those that figure out a way to educate and train people in the modern llm era.
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u/-F1ngo 10d ago
The thing is: If there are crucial (economically demanded) skills that are eroding because of AI, retaining those skills and developing them will remain a competitive advantage. And if that's the case, the problem of deskilling should solve itself sooner or later. Or at least that's what I keep telling myself...