Bingo. AI is NOT making raw skill/talent obsolete, rather it’s actually making it more valuable. Deep technical knowledge now has even more leverage in the real world, not less, because you then have more “surfaces” to apply the use of AI. And this realization is what actually inspired me to build my own homelab datacenter to host my tech SaaS rather than use cloud services like AWS. The value of learning basic networking, devops, and server hardware is now multiplied because that expertise can be applied faster and farther with AI. Before AI I would have to spend several hours or days learning RouterOS, for example, to be able to configure a datacenter-class Mikrotik router. With Claude that became a 20 minute job and I learned a lot about routing configuration in the process — that gives me unique controls over my product offering that I simply wouldn’t have if I “just used the cloud”. In fact I am actually tempted to build my own OS — something I wouldnt have dared to think of before AI.