“AI Skills” are worthless in 2026

> a skill that can be picked up in a few weeks, and will be obsolete in a few months, has no value outside the moment.

What does the author mean by "AI Skills"?

What is an example of such an AI skill that "can be picked up in a few weeks"?

The only "AI" example they seem to give is:

> in five years, I’m sure there will be old heads doggedly adding 'you are an experienced software developer, make no mistakes'

1. I don't think "make no mistakes" was ever considered a real AI skill - it was popularized as meme to mock those who did not have any real "skill" with AI?

2. In years things may change, but Googling seems to indicate that mentioning a role in a prompt can be helpful as it quickly sets the stage for the AI to understand the persona/purpose/context/scope/desired response format for the rest of the prompt. But I'm still not sure it fits the article's core claim of something "obsolete in a few months".

On what basis are you telling this? I think, it's more "outdated" skills that are worthless, but the interval of time we have to refresh those is getting ridiculously fast....

> But a skill that can be picked up in a few weeks, and will be obsolete in a few months, has no value outside the moment.

This does not describe the general skill of effective communication, which is a prerequisite to writing a prompt that actually describes what you have in mind. Nor does it describe the general skill of, well, having something coherent and sensible in mind.

If anything, we are getting worse at acquiring these skills, thanks to an overreliance on AI. Everything turns to slop, if we let it.