Source: Nate’s Substack
The handoff between AI tools and human expertise is breaking down. Workers must either rebuild competency in new platforms or cede decision-making to systems they don't understand. This isn't a adoption problem—it's economic. Routine cognitive work absorbed into "rent-a-brain" services is collapsing the middle skill tiers that once commanded premium pay. Workers are left with neither mastery nor leverage: either executing low-value tasks or outsourcing judgment to opaque systems.