90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 - by Kent Beck 90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0
Kent Becktidyfirst.substack.com
90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 - by Kent Beck 90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0
What drives our engagement with our careers is the ability to own scarce and specialized skills that grant us a skill premium. AI might not take your job, but it can take away what makes your skills special, or at least reduce the gap between you and someone else who’s less skilled but has access to AI tools. When that happens, your ability to
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I have been stuck. Every time I sit down to write a blog post, code a feature, or start a project, I come to the same realization: in the context of AI, what I’m doing is a waste of time.
Dustin Curtis on Svbtle • Thoughts on Thinking
AI has eroded the value of specialization because, for many tasks, achieving the outcome of several years of experience now takes a $20 ChatGPT subscription.
If a decade ago it took me nine months to gain enough experience to ship a single prototype, now it takes just one week to build a state-of-the-art platform ready to be shipped — a project once... See more
If a decade ago it took me nine months to gain enough experience to ship a single prototype, now it takes just one week to build a state-of-the-art platform ready to be shipped — a project once... See more