Beth

Yes.

They warn against the credential arms race.

If your value is your Clawed Skills Specialist badge, you're a hostage to Anthropic's product roadmap.

But if your value is I know how to decompose complex problems, that applies to Clawed, to OpenAI, to whatever comes next.

And here's where it gets really painful.

The sources argue there's essentially no middle ground.

Because time is finite.

That's the reality.

You have, say, 15 hours a week.

You can spend it mastering the latest agent swarm.

Or you spend it reading papers on data ethics.

You can't really do both well.

They're struggling.

The infrastructure is becoming liquid.

The report mentions the University of Wisconsin-Madison creating a whole new college focused on judgment and integration, not just coding.

They know teaching syntax is a losing battle.

This is fascinating.

The idea that when we push people to constantly learn new tools, we're teaching a hidden lesson.

Learned helplessness.

It seems that way, but the subtext is the expertise is in the tool, not in you.