You're right. The jobs are gone. They always go when a disruptive technology arrives — it happened with the industrial revolution, with electrification, with software itself. AI is not different. The work either gets restructured or AI does it. Either way, the people who survive adapt. The article is about what adaptation actually looks like — not whether it's necessary.
Steve makes the key point precisely: "AI is compressing the value of routine expertise... If your entire value is built on repeating what you already know how to do, that value is shrinking."
But what is the alternative? Most answers land on "learn new skills faster" — which is still repeating what you already know how to do, just in a different domain. The compression will catch up.
The capacity that doesn't compress is the one that operates before expertise: arriving at a genuinely unknown situation without a preset conclusion, staying open to what's actually there, finding the structure underneath it before you know what to look for. That's not a skill category most professional development tracks for — and it's exactly what determines whether a person directs AI or is directed by it.
Wrote about this specifically: https://medium.com/@genady_awarelife/youre-not-competing-wit...