I've spent the last year watching engineers and writers adopt these tools, and the same pattern keeps showing up. The first three months look transformative. The next nine look almost identical to the first three.
The output keeps coming. The confidence keeps building. The skill stops moving.
This isn't a story about AI making people dumber. It's a story about a comfort plateau that didn't exist before, and what it costs to stay on it.
The accessibility breakthrough is real
Draw a spider chart. Hundreds of axes: SQL, contract law, React, radiology, negotiation, Kubernetes, copywriting. Score a human. Most experts look like a star with two or three spikes and a flat field everywhere else. Depth is the point.
