But they have engaged with it, and made an assessment about it's current utility.

We have no reason to believe that they won't keep an eye on this.

Little to nothing about AI tools so far suggests that that one can't just as easily pick the skills later. Tools that will get "exponentially better" will almost certainly be unrecognizable to someone desperately engaging with them now, for not other reason the sake of "having 1-2 years of experience"

Someone might reasonably choose to to bet on the upside. That doesn't imply that everyone else ought to fearfully hedge.