AI and the Early Adoption Skill Premium

A comment I've seen a few times from the LLM-reluctant software people goes like this: If the models are getting easier to use with each generation, then there's no real penalty for being a late adopter. The premise is true: the tools are getting easier to use - for more tasks and by a wider user base. But the conclusion is false. If the tools get easier to use for many tasks, the market value for…