Tag
The article explores how increasingly powerful AI models eliminate those whose skills can be encoded into prompts, emphasizing that the truly irreplaceable value lies in tacit knowledge, physical-world operations, and interpersonal trust. Through the example of a friend transitioning from a consultant to a hardware integrator, the author illustrates how proactively yielding to AI-replaceable tasks while deepening expertise in areas beyond AI's reach is key to surviving and thriving in the technological wave.
The author shares an experience in an MIT AI Agent course, reflecting on the reasons for abandoning a project aimed at connecting AI agents to hardware, and criticizes a competing project that won high praise from judges and VCs merely by integrating and packaging a simple robotic arm interface.