alt Hacker News> 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.
Correct, AI skills became worthless in 2026, because nobody gives a damn about how good your prompt is. Your boss and customers only care about how the output positively or negatively affects them and as far as we know, the standards for what constitutes good output have been dropping.