The 20-year-old advice to specialize is now backwards
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“The advice we’ve been getting for the last 20 years is: specialize in a subject… But now it seems to be the opposite. Don’t specialize. Go broad. Be jack of all trades, because your ability to specialize is no longer valuable — AI is much better at specialization… AI can write better code; I’ve been coding for 25 years.” — 02:11:00
Context: Career-advice corollary of the displacement thesis; AI as a “force multiplier” for idea-rich generalists.