Delegating Skills to AI Is Fine — the Real Question Is Which Skills Come Next
DevToD4 · x · 2026-10-08
The author pushes back on the fear that offloading cognitive work to AI devalues us: nobody asks you to compute an equation in your head before using a calculator. He argues we can't know what future challenges humans will face, so the focus should be on the skills needed to overcome them — and we'll only discover those skills once we make peace with delegating our current skillset to AI.
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