> and can pick up unfamiliar ones quicker

Do you tho? Does "picking up" a skill mean the same thing it used to? Do you fact check all the stuff AI tells you? How certain are you, you are learning correct information? Struggling through unfamiliar topics, making mistakes and figuring out solutions by testing internal hypotheses is a big part of how deep, explanatory knowledge is acquired for human brains. Or maybe, it's been always 10,000 kilowatt-hours, after all.

Even, if you would actually learn different tech stacks faster with AI telling you what to do, it's still a momentary thing, since these systems are fundamentally poisoned by their own talk, so shit's basically frozen in time, still limited to pre-AI-slop information, or requires insane amounts of manual sanitation. And who's gonna write the content for clean new training data anyway?

Mind you, I am talking about the possible prospect of this technology and a cost-value evaluation. Maybe I am grossly ignorant/uninformed, but to me all of it just doesn't add up, if you project inherent limitations onto wider adoption and draw the obvious logical conclusions. That is, if humanity isn't stagnating and new knowledge is created.