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The capabilities that stay valuable as the tools change.
The meta-skills that survive automation: judgment under uncertainty, learning velocity, systems thinking, and taste. What to build in yourself and your team when the half-life of any specific skill keeps shrinking.
"Will agents replace this job?" has a false premise in its grammar. The unit of automation is the task, not the job, and that reframe predicts which roles compress and which expand.
Every clever prompt trick is a bet against the next model release, and you will lose it. The skill that appreciates is specifying the problem: goal, real constraints, acceptance test, and the cost of being wrong.
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