@trq212: very weird thing happening rn technical people are sad, they think their skills are now useless non-technical people ar…
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A tweet observing a paradoxical shift during the AI agent era: technical people feel their skills are becoming obsolete, while non-technical people increasingly wish they were more technical to better leverage AI agents.
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very weird thing happening rn
technical people are sad, they think their skills are now useless
non-technical people are desperately wishing they were more technical so they could use agents better
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