My uncle's been an electrician for 31 years. He caught the AI estimate error. The younger guys didn't. That's what actually worries me about this.

My uncle has been a commercial electrician for 31 years. Last month his company told him to start using an AI tool that generates job estimates. He typed in one job by hand, checked the output, and said "that's wrong." It was. Nobody else on the team noticed.

He's not worried about being replaced. He's worried about the younger guys who are going to learn the trade through the AI output and never develop the instinct to know when it's wrong.

That's the part of this conversation I don't see discussed enough — not "will AI take jobs" but "what happens to skill formation when AI sits between the learner and the actual work?"

A junior lawyer who lets AI draft every motion never learns to think through an argument from scratch. A new electrician who trusts the AI estimate never develops the intuition for why a weird old building costs three times what the software says it does.

The floor gets raised for the people who already know what they're doing. But does the ceiling get lowered for everyone coming up behind them?

Curious whether anyone — trades, white collar, doesn't matter — is seeing this play out where they work.