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To be fair to both sides, it really is hard to tell if we're in the world of

"you'll be left behind if you don't learn crypto" with crypto

or

"you'll be left behind if you don't learn how to drive" with cars

One of those statements is made in good faith, and the other is made out of insecurity. But we'll probably only really be able to tell looking backwards.

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I don't really see the point in worrying about prompting, and agents and mcps, and skills and all this as a skill to learn. They're trivial if you're already a developer and if it gets good enough that you don't need to know software engineering, there's not going to be anything to learn. Setting it up is a subset of software engineering so it will be able to do that its self once it can solve problems reliably without someone to understand what's going on to check it.

As an aside, both those statements were wrong. People who learned to drive well after cars were widely adopted were at no particular disadvantage when and if they decided to adopt the technology. You can see this is true by noting that at this point, no one alive learned to drive when cars first came out.

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