This is not my experience at all. I see more people having difficulties in extracting value out of AI than the other way around. When I check what they're doing, they paint themselves in all kinds of weird corners, like keeping a mega-session full of unrelated questions, letting the AI model lead instead of managing it, misunderstanding the scope of what to ask for, etc.

Of course all the crap about prompt engineering or whatever is meaningless, and it always was. That said, this idea that if AI gets good enough you will just jump in and use it is flawed. You learn by doing. It's almost self-evident to me that someone who has been working with AI models for the past 4 years will be much better at it than someone who started this week.