Ask yourself why the anxiety feels so intense. It’s not just speed. It’s loss of narrative. People built identities around skill acquisition ladders that assumed stability. AI breaks those ladders and people feel like they're getting devalued, even when it’s really just skill recomp. Thinking of AI like early PCs makes sense because the winners weren’t the ones who predicted outcomes, but the ones that got the reps in and built intuition early. “I’ll learn AI later” sounds reasonable until you realize what you’re actually saying, which is: “I’m okay being a translator forever.”