Technical people mourn devaluing skills while non-technical people scramble to learn agents
trq212 · x · 2026-10-29
A widely resonating observation: technical people are sad, feeling their skills are now useless, while non-technical people are desperately wishing they were more technical so they could use AI agents better — a neat snapshot of the value inversion in the agent era.
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